A house can be made from wood, stone, tin, red soil, or memory. In music, it can also be made from strings, shared breath, and the small pauses that let one culture listen to another without rushing to answer. Karoo's debut EP, "Casa", carries that feeling with quiet confidence. The title points toward home, but the record treats home as a living idea rather than...

Heartbreak hits harder when it refuses to slam the door. Reetoxa's "Love Keeps Burning Still," takes that feeling and gives it piano, strings, and two voices circling the same emotional bruise. Led by Melbourne songwriter and vocalist Jason McKee, the single carries the ache of a marriage that ended, but left warmth behind. It is soft in pace, big in feeling, and built for late-night...