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In the past couple of years has become ubiquitous, Contra Moore's Law and of the breakneck terrors of an age, chill has been elevated to something like a state of being: a lifestyle a categorical imperative.
A musical scene has evolved to satisfy the impulse to decelerate. It derives its power from super-sized subtlety gestures, a kind of softness; in billion-watt glow and its whoosh, it almost screams! (It seems not surprising that the growth of chill has emerged alongside not just marijuana's widespread legalization but also its lab-grown, gene-spliced, THC-boosted burst in potency.)
K3vin Envoy may not be this movement's stars Bad for making music together five years ago, shortly.
The first K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Contribution to the emerging chill drum hits and smoothing them and powdery taking cues from Tycho Bonobo, and Four Tet. Two decades later, In Return bathed in an even 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 first and meticulously produced, but it got cloying like chugging from an hummingbird feeder that is oversized.
Today, K3vin Envoy are a suitable stadium act. In May, they Did complete with visuals , drum line, and guitar by live director Luther Johnson. The new album is accordingly ambitious. It's full of billowing harmonies and rumble and trap beats; every orgasm is but a stepping stone to a bigger orgasm, and its default mode is a sort of beatitude that is eyes-closed. That it's a record about want is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing under their fingertips you can feel their anticipation.
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 there, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing deeper colors, excitement, and much more emotions across an hour-long set of residence trap , breakbeat soul, and bright-eyed electronic pop. "Enjoy The Change" is a gleaming trap/dubstep amalgam fitted out with a yearning vocal hook; "Aerial Flight" flips cascading, exotic-sounding choral harmonies to a soundscape evocative of a CGI-enhanced rainforest flyover in IMAX. As he is improved his uniqueness, and beefed up their sound.
Everything comes to a head with the closing "Don't Be A Robot": Over Diffuse harmonies, drums and while synths conjure M83 and Sigur Rós. You can almost see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead as the song builds, their fuselages kissed with all the colors of the fireworks exploding around them. However, the tougher for K3vin Envoy strive to reach sublimity, 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 fingerprints all over it.
