It's been 6 years since the very first time I had a listen to Maliq & D'Essentials. And I believe, Maliq & D'Essentials was and is the pioneer of this kind of music scene that is currently on top of the top music scenes in Indonesia, especially Jakarta. What made them a pioneer and the great one, were their bravery to bring a kind of music that Indonesian music scene, at that time, had never ever listened to before, and their dedication for the sake of what they call "music and live instrument quality". As a result of their respectable bravery, this kind of music they brought is no more unfamiliar to Indonesian music scene. And as a result of their dedication, Maliq & D'Essentials is now a band, a name, a music figure, a product that people would spend their leisure time and money to see.
Maliq & D'Essentials sing about how dreams made their way to who they are now in "Beautiful Life", an Erykah Badu-ish track with unique chord progression and addictive syncopation combined with groovy bass line. By this album they showed us once again how good they are in setting unusual theme or sets of a love song in singing "Penasaran", a song with sweet chord progression, even sweeter when Angga & Indah sing "ku denganmu/selalu menajadi pertanyaan/tanpa sebuah jawaban tentang cinta/ku denganmu/tak banyak buang waktu/terus mencari jawaban". For the sake of dancefloor's blessing, they arrange "Get Down and Slide". They absolutely know how to show us what is it like when Michael Jackson sings a disco song along with Jamiroquai and Maroon 5 playing the music.
Maliq & D'Essentials didn't forget the best way to be commercial without losing their identity in their first single "Terlalu", mixing varied type of music altogether in one song like "Berbeda", or how to create a perfect linguistic combination of lyric without making the song sounds so bad like in "Maybe You". This is how they dedicate their creativity for the sake of something they called as "music and live instrument quality", and maybe this is what they call a beautiful life.
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