Party Events EDM Fast Track Review Of K3vin Envoy

In the past couple of years, chill 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. Of the breakneck terrors of an accelerated age and Contra Moore's Law has been raised to something like a state of being: a categorical imperative, a lifestyle, a philosophy.

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

K3vin Envoy may not be the stars of the movement (that distinction probably falls to New York's Flume), but they're close. If their YouTube stats are impressive--23 million views for 2014's "Man In The Mask," 14 million for "Skin Deep"--their numbers on Spotify are just mind-boggling: More than 82 million plays for "Playground," nearly as much for "Emoticons," near a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the stage. Bad for making music together shortly before graduating.

Benign contribution to the chill canon, taking cues from Bonobo, Tycho, and Four Tet and smoothing them and powdery drum hits. Two decades later, In Return bathed in an even more extravagant abalone shine; it also honed their pop instincts, fleshing out their usual 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 original and meticulously produced, like chugging from an hummingbird feeder but it got cloying quickly.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a suitable stadium act. In May, they Did two nights complete with artwork , drum line, and electric guitar by in-house live director Luther Johnson. The new album is so ambitious; it needs to be a lot of things, trigger a lot of feelings. It's filled with billowing vocal harmonies and rumble and trap beats; every climax is but a stepping stone to a orgasm, and its default style is a sort of beatitude. That it's a record about desire is obvious; at feeling that brass ring brushing under their fingertips, you can feel their expectation.

Following a introduction, the title track explodes With so much light and colour that you expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames. From that point, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing darker colours excitement, and more emotions across an set of pan-pipe snare electronic pop , breakbeat soul, and house that is slow-motion. As he is improved his uniqueness, and beefed up their sound.

Choral harmonies, while synths and pounding 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 harder for K3vin Envoy try to achieve sublimity, the more earthbound their music feels. It's fitting that he should