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[8] but she does not appear on the album.

[10] After signing a three-year deal with British indie label Lojinx, The Olympus Sound was released outside Ireland on CD and vinyl on 16 April 2012.

I sent them over reluctantly, and within about three hours he'd sent back about eight tracks of guitars, keyboards and Mellotron on "There You Are", and those ended up being the ones we used on the final the song.

It was the perfect sound so we kept it and started the album from there.The cover artwork is taken from a 2010 painting called The Unseen, by British artists and married couple Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings.