Beautiful by MAAME is an ethereal and effervescent track that captures emotion above anything else. The song explores that feeling of butterflies in your stomach as you speak to someone you’re attracted to. With a charming tonal style and a wonderful guitar accompaniment, the track bottles and distills excitement and joy from beginning to end. The guitars have a spaced out energy, building the rhythm with this almost contradictory crispness and reverberation. It creates this musical miasma and then cuts through it all at the same time. It also does a great job of providing textural contrast to the smoothness of the vocals with its sharp, shiny timbre.

The vocals feel soft and deliberate so the energy of the guitar pushes the track forward and builds a sense of diversity into the texture overall. The vocals excel in their simplicity. They feel effortless in their confident style as they float above the composition. I’m sure a huge amount of work has gone into crafting that gentle, subtle style but as a listener the ease that the vocal communicates is contagious, washing over you and immersing you in the waves of sound. The rise and fall within the delivery caught me off guard. There is a huge vocal range that this track plays with and the vocalist feels just as comfortable on either end of that scale. The drums come into the track subtly, adding emphasis that contributes further energy to the song and allows it to grow organically from the initial kick of the guitar. It lends Beautiful a sense of evolution and gives the quieter sections more of an impact because of the juxtaposition of the boldness of the drums and guitar. Towards the end, the tone of the piece changes slightly, finding a more subtle tone with a change of guitar technique. The track employs this muted plucking that creates a quietness in the mix, allowing the vocal to shine. This track excels in its ease and charm. The meticulous detail that has gone into crafting something that sounds so effortless and natural deserves your attention. Listen below!