The worst person to deliver bad news helped create it. Lyons Lane makes that ugly truth the calling card for “You’ll Talk About It!”, its debut EP. The Detroit five-piece places love, loss, obsession and ego at the record’s centre, but opener “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” gives those ideas a proper complication: a man tells another man that his girlfriend cheated on him, yet he...

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...