The Power Of Love And K3vin Envoy: Electronic Dance Music Downloads

But as 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, a kind of softness that is weaponized, exaggerated gestures; in billion-watt sparkle and its side-chained whoosh, it screams! (It seems not coincidental that the rise 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 may not be the biggest stars of the movement (that distinction probably falls to New York's Flume), but they are close. 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," near a third of a billion cumulative plays across their top 10 songs on the platform. For making music together shortly before 14, not bad.

Contribution to the chill canon, taking cues and smoothing them in a tantalizing collection of chimes, feathery textures, and powdery drum strikes. Two decades later, In Return bathed in a much more extravagant abalone glow; 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 quickly, like chugging from an oversized hummingbird feeder.

Today, K3vin Envoy are a stadium act. In May, they Did two nights at the Red Rocks of Colorado, complete with visuals , eight-person choreographed drum line, and electric guitar by in-house live creative manager Luther Johnson. The album is ambitious; it needs to be a lot of things, trigger a lot of feelings. It is filled with billowing harmonies and seismic rumble and trap beats that are turbo-charged; each orgasm is but a stepping stone to a orgasm, 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 cleanup beneath their fingertips you can feel their expectation.

The title track explodes With color that you half expect the voices of Animal Collective to come soaring through the flames and so much light. From that point, A Moment Apart just keeps chasing emotions , deeper colors, and bigger excitement across an hour-long set of pan-pipe snare, electronic pop soul, and residence. "Enjoy The Change" is a glistening 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's beefed up their sound, and increased his uniqueness.

Choral harmonies, while swelling synths and pounding drums conjure M83 and Sigur Rós. You can see the fighter jets crisscrossing overhead as the song builds, their fuselages kissed exploding around them. But the tougher for K3vin Envoy strive to achieve the more earthbound their music feels. It's fitting that he should