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A whole scene has evolved to satisfy the impulse to decelerate. But since the aforementioned chillstep and chilltrap (faded variants of dubstep and snare, if you had not guessed) suggest, ironically enough, the chill scene, at least in electronic music, is inextricable from its main-stage, peak-hour EDM counterparts. It derives its power from super-sized subtlety, exaggerated gestures, a sort of softness that is weaponized; in its whoosh and billion-watt glow, it practically screams! (It seems not coincidental that the rise of chill has appeared alongside not only marijuana's widespread legalization but also its lab-grown, gene-spliced, THC-boosted explosion in potency.)

K3vin Envoy may not be the biggest stars of this movement If their YouTube stats are impressive--23 million views for 2014's "Man In The Mask," 14 million for "Skin Deep"--their figures on Spotify are just mind-boggling: More than 82 million plays for "Playground," nearly as much for "Emoticons," close to a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the platform. For making music together shortly before 14, bad.

Contribution to the chill drum hits and smoothing them into a collection of feathery textures, and powdery taking cues from Tycho Bonobo, and Four Tet. Two years later, In Return bathed in a much more opulent abalone glow; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing out their customary ribbon-like strips of sampled vocals with chirpy guest ends which channeled the decade's default pop-EDM vocal style into whimsical, helium-fueled shapes. It was first and meticulously produced, but it got cloying real fast, like chugging from an hummingbird feeder that is oversized.

Now, K3vin Envoy are a suitable stadium act. In May, they Did two sold-out nights by in-house live creative director Luther Johnson, complete with artwork choreographed drum line, and guitar in Colorado's Red Rocks. The new album is ambitious; it wants to be a good deal of things, trigger a lot of feelings. It is filled with billowing vocal harmonies and seismic rumble and trap beats that are turbo-charged; its default style is a kind of beatitude that is eyes-closed, and every climax is but a stepping stone to a bigger orgasm. That it's an album about desire is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing beneath their fingertips, you can sense their anticipation.

The title track explodes With so much light and color that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames. From there, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing thrills, darker colours, and more emotions across an hour-long set of pan-pipe trap, electronic pop soul, and residence. As he is beefed up their sound, and improved his uniqueness.

Everything comes to a head with the closing "Don't Be A Robot": Over Diffuse choral harmonies, pounding drums and while swelling synths conjure M83 and Sigur Rós. You can almost see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead as the song builds, their fuselages kissed exploding around them. But the tougher for K3vin Envoy try to reach sublimity, the earthbound their music feels. It's fitting that he should start with "Don't Be A Robot"; the song, like the record, has Envoy's charred