Small Things

Majid Jordan in their characteristic mode: the Toronto duo's signature fog-and-neon aesthetic applied to a meditation on small moments as the true substance of a relationship — the ordinary details that accumulate into love without announcing themselves. Jordan Ullman's production is all diffuse synth pads, slow-roll drum programming, and bass lines that sit warm in the low-mid frequencies, giving everything a slightly soft-focus quality that matches the lyrical content. Majid Al Maskati's vocals are smooth and unhurried, pitched to the emotional register of appreciation rather than desire or longing, which distinguishes this from the more obviously romantic material in their catalog. The genius of the track is its investment in specificity — the small things named are particular enough to feel observed rather than invented, giving the song a documentary intimacy. Toronto's version of Drake-adjacent R&B has produced a generation of artists fluent in this kind of atmospheric softness, and Majid Jordan are perhaps its most fully-formed practitioners. This is weekend-morning music: coffee, comfortable domesticity, the particular contentment of being exactly where you are.