- chamber pop
- 42 min
- 12 tracks
- 1969 Records
The Olympus Sound is the fifth studio album by Irish power pop band Pugwash. It features contributions from Ben Folds, Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy, and Dave Gregory and Andy Partridge of XTC. Frontman Thomas Walsh wrote the track "Dear Belinda" as a birthday present for British actress Belinda Stewart-Wilson, and claimed Stewart-Wilson had requested to sing vocals on the final version of the song but she does not appear on the album.
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Grave, spare, contemporary and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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Tracks
- 1Answers on a Postcard2:54
- 2There You Are3:27
- 3To the Warmth of You3:12
- 4Fall Down4:08
- 5Be My Friend Awhile4:12
- 6Dear Belinda2:35
- 715 Kilocycle Tone2:49
- 8I Don't Like It but I've Gotta Do It2:45
- 9Here We Go 'round Again3:14
- 10Such Beauty Thrown Away3:20
- 11See You Mine (Coda)5:04
- 12Four Days4:30
12 tracks, 42 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Pugwash
- Label
- 1969 Records
- Released
- 2011-08
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- IE
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