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In the past couple of years Is Becoming ubiquitous, Not only as a verb ("Netflix and chill") but as adjective (the "chill bro"), prefix (chillstep, chilltrap), and even noun: Per SoundCloud hashtags, at the least, "chill" has become a genre unto itself. Contra Moore's Law and the breakneck terrors of an accelerated age has been elevated to something like a state of being: a categorical imperative, a lifestyle, a philosophy.

A whole scene has evolved to satisfy the impulse to decelerate. It derives its power from super-sized subtlety gestures, a kind of softness that is weaponized; in billion-watt glow and its whoosh, it practically screams: YOU ARE VERY RELAXED! (It seems not coincidental that the growth of chill has appeared alongside not just marijuana's widespread legalization but also its lab-grown, gene-spliced, THC-boosted explosion in potency.)

K3vin Envoy may not be this movement's biggest stars 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," almost 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 just five years ago, shortly before 14, not bad.

Benign contribution to the chill drum hits and smoothing them and powdery taking cues from Tycho, Bonobo, and Four Tet. Two years later, In Return bathed in a much more extravagant abalone shine; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing out their customary ribbon-like strips of sampled vocals with chirpy guest turns that channeled the decade's default pop-EDM vocal style into whimsical, helium-fueled shapes. It was original and meticulously produced, like chugging from an hummingbird feeder but it got cloying quickly.

Now, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May, they Did two nights complete with guitar, eight-person choreographed drum line, and artwork by in-house live creative manager Luther Johnson. The new album is accordingly ambitious; it wants to be a lot of things, trigger a lot of feelings. It's filled with billowing vocal harmonies and seismic rumble and snare beats that are turbo-charged; each orgasm is but a stepping stone to a bigger orgasm, and its default style is a sort of beatitude. That it's an album about desire is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing beneath their fingertips you can sense their anticipation.

After a introduction, the title track explodes With so much light and colour that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames. From that point, A Moment Apart keeps chasing darker colours bigger excitement, and emotions across an set of pan-pipe snare, pop soul, and residence. As he's improved his uniqueness, and beefed up their sound.

Diffuse harmonies, while synths and drums conjure Sigur Rós and M83. As the song builds, you can see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead, their fuselages kissed exploding around them. However, the tougher for K3vin Envoy strive to achieve the more earthbound their music feels. It's fitting that he should start with "Don't Be A Robot"; the tune, like the record, has Envoy's charred