Party EDM Events Fast Track Review Of K3vin Envoy

All of the breakneck terrors of an accelerated age and Contra Moore's Law has been raised to something such as a state of being: a categorical imperative, a lifestyle, a philosophy.

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

K3vin Envoy Might 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," nearly as much for "Emoticons," close to a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the platform. Bad for making music together just five years ago, shortly before graduating.

The first K3vin Envoy Soundcloud mixes offered a fairly Innocuous contribution to the chill canon, taking cues from Bonobo, Tycho, and Four Tet and smoothing them and powdery drum strikes. Two years later, In Return bathed in an even more extravagant abalone glow; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing out their usual 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 real fast.

Now, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May Did by live creative director Luther Johnson, complete with artwork choreographed drum line, and electric guitar at Colorado's Red Rocks. The album is ambitious; it needs to be a lot of things, trigger a lot of feelings. It's filled with billowing seismic rumble and harmonies and turbo-charged trap beats; every climax is but a stepping stone to a climax that is bigger, and its default style is a kind of eyes-closed beatitude. That it's a record about want is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing beneath their fingertips you can feel their anticipation.

After a introduction, the title track explodes With colour that you half expect Animal Collective's voices to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From there, A Moment Apart keeps chasing excitement, darker colours, and much more heartstring-tugging emotions across an set of pan-pipe snare electronic pop , breakbeat soul, and house that is slow-motion. "Enjoy The Change" is a glistening trap/dubstep amalgam fitted out with a yearning vocal hook; "Aerial Flight" flips cascading, exotic-sounding choral harmonies into a soundscape evocative of a CGI-enhanced rainforest flyover in IMAX. As he's improved his uniqueness, and beefed up their sound.

Diffuse choral harmonies, drums and while synths conjure Sigur Rós and M83. You can 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 try to achieve the earthbound their music feels.