A toddler clutching a kaleidoscope probably doesn’t fathom the full extent of the beauty whirling inside it. That’s a bit like encountering The Report’s latest EP, “Everything Life Throws”. Just when you think you've pieced together what’s happening, you shift it slightly, and new patterns emerge, forcing you to sit with its intentions a little longer. Hugo Allen and Jo Rogers didn’t craft an...

Anxiety gets a body, a corner and a countdown on IamSnap’s "Last Round". The Australian hip-hop artist turns depression and anxiety into a live opponent, then refuses to give that opponent the final word. Featuring Lydia Caesar, this new single runs on friction: blunt rap passages that name procrastination, self-doubt and creative paralysis, followed by a chorus that reaches for daylight without pretending the fight has...