'Now that it's over, I'll never be sober' goes the opener with a slow, nostalgic roll underneath, sounding as if the rapper joined the DeBarge family, while 'The Palisades' is a calm-and-cool cut with guitars strumming and harmonies bumpin' while the genre of yacht-hop is further explored. As Imagine Dragons would say, 'welcome to the new age,' as Kauai is a benefit EP (money going to Hawaiian eco-preservation) that, when combined with the free STN MTN mixtape, forms a concept mixtape plus EP for a package that continues the story found on Gambino's 2013 album, Because the Internet.Ĭomplain that that's convoluted, or better yet, accept that distribution channels now allow for ambitious experiments such as this, because this is an attractive R&B-based EP where Gambino's character offers a smooth crooning appendix that's post-relationship, post-trust-in-the-world, and maybe even post-hip-hop.
