Guardian Music — (V2)Dave Gahan was a deep personal well of darkness: six minutes spent clinically dead following an overdose in 1996; a cancerous tumour in 2009. He draws on it extensively here. British duo Soulsavers have form in this area – their last collaborat... more info

Impose Magazine — Lumerians are known for making music that is filmic in nature, songs soaked in the language of Morricone and his brethren. So it's easy enough, with each new Lumerians track, to cast and write the scene that they are soundtracking. This five minu... more info

Impose Magazine — As Psych Fest drew to a close, Day 3 packed in the big names, though the better performances came from the lesser-knowns. Drawing inspiration direct from Ennio Morricone, Federale turned Beauty Ballroom into a red desertscape, stripped straight from... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — by Kathleen Furey Ennio Morricone: La Musica Parla (The Music Talks) Whats on Network Awesome Today? Ennio Morricone is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time. In the span of his six-decade career, he has... more info

Guardian Music — (Naim)Get the Blessing trumpeter Pete Judge says this new album finds the exuberant Portishead-powered quartet "less afraid to be itself than it used to be". With its thundering rock-bass grooves and scorching early Ornette Coleman/Don Cherry horn so... more info

Guardian Music — We've processed your snaps. We hope you enjoy the resultsLast week I asked you to suggest your favourite songs about photographs, which sent you burrowing through dusty drawers for a tide of yellowing, forgotten snapshots. Because records, like photo... more info

Guardian Music — The seeds sown in last week's blog have borne fruitGardens have long been depicted as places of innocence and imagination, of magic and possibility. That's the only traditional thing about the United States of America's unsettling, mesmerising The Ga... more info

Guardian Music — Brighton AudioOn record, Other Lives have a spectacularly luscious and vivid sound: almost every rave review of their second album, Tamer Animals, reached for the adjective "cinematic" to describe the richness of its arrangements. It's remarkable stu... more info

Guardian Music — Large vision, stellar cast, but is unknown Londoner Jeymes Samuel another Damon Albarn, or a pretentious buffoon?Hometown: London.The lineup: Jeymes Samuel (vocals, music).The background: Holy crap. What is this? Making sense of the Bullitts is makin... more info

Guardian Music — Inspired by the landscape of their native Oklahoma, Other Lives combine their rustic rock with classical minimalism. Martin Aston meets a band without limitsStrolling along Kingsland Road in east London, Jesse Tabish shows no interest in the vintage... more info