Inspired by Rimbaud's poem, Ophelie, Bologna-based trio Ofeliadorme live up to their name. Seductive, tender, immersive, and shrouded in a mystery befitting ancient prose, theirs is a crossroads between the serenity of Cocteau Twins, Portishead's emotive darkness, and PJ Harvey's shape shifting pop qualities. It's ambient, New Wave, dreamy, stargazing electronica. One part foggy warmth, another stark desperation, the results are truly unique, and utterly compelling.

An achingly lush chamber-folk album with crystalline harmonies, recorded in the dead of a Toronto winter in a church and the basement of the band's house. The band recommend listening to it in a cozy space with a roaring fire nearby.

"Seven Shades, Lighter" from Nigerian singer and songwriter, Ola Onabule is a special preview of Ola’s seventh studio album, Seven Shades Darker, coming later in 2011.

"New Blood" is a continuum of Peter’s previous album, "Scratch My Back", a song-swap project where he covered the songs of others, all to an orchestral backing. “He really liked what he was discovering,” explains his engineer Richard ‘Dickie’ Chappell. “As soon as we started do the covers, there was talk of applying it to his own songs. It was always an ongoing thought”. The album has been created specifically for Bowers & Wilkins' Society Of Sound members.

"Scratch My Back" is the eighth studio album (and fifteenth album overall) by English musician Peter Gabriel, his first in eight years. It was released in February 2010. The album, recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during 2009, consists of cover versions of twelve songs by various artists, using only orchestra and voice. It is produced by Gabriel himself with Bob Ezrin.

Released in 1986, "So" became one of the defining albums of the era, landing multitudes of awards, millions of sales and a huge hit single with 'Sledgehammer'. The 25th anniversary remastered version goes back to Peter Gabriel's original sonic vision for the album.

The Mariinsky label was launched in May 2009 with a ground-breaking recording of Shostakovich’s early opera The Nose, which received much praise and many awards. Gergiev continues to work his way through the Shostakovich oeuvre with the Mariinsky and here adds the two piano concertos, plus the fifth piano concerto by the popular Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin.

Joseph Arthur was born in Ohio-native and in his life has recorded and released a number of albums in rock, folk, pop. In this record, a variety of songs - vocal and instrumental, of nakrotikah and autobiographical, and many other stories. Arthur describes his new record as "some of the richest music I've made in 17 years of putting music together. "Boogie Christ" is a psychedelic soul record about redemption and what happens after you find and lose it".

If there's such a thing as the opposite of writer's block, Joseph Arthur has it. The Akron, Ohio-bred/Brooklyn, NY-resiciing singer/songwriter, who once released four EPs in the span of as many months, has demonstrated his unwavering proclivity yet again with the release of "Redemption City", a 24-song double album.

Curios were described by Mojo as "the most formidable piano trio in the UK". Since the release of the band's debut album "Hidden" in February 2007, Curios have made a striking impact on the UK jazz scene.

With their unmistakable sound of Welsh language vocals shimmering alongside swamp guitar, harp, rhythm section and a subtle use of technology, 9Bach have been widely credited with giving a new voice to Welsh song. Their previous album, Tincian, (also featured on Society of Sound) was described by The Line of Best Fit as "ripped through with transcendence; a brooding melancholy as much as a gossamer dreaminess", and was voted Best Album at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Awards by the public.

The first of an occasional series of live recordings from London's Kings Place, Roddy Woomble and his band make the most of the bespoke acoustics playing a lively set mixing folk and Americana with ease showcasing Woomble's evocative vocals and consummate gift for a tune.

Revengepop? The prog Karen Carpenter? Barbra Streisand on acid? Bat For Lashes on a bookbinge? Whatever way you choose to describe "Confessions of A Romance Novelist", the debut album by The Anchoress, one thing’s for sure: it packs a punch. Catherine Anne Davies (aka The Anchoress) sums up the album's overall concept as "deconstructing normative ideas of love and romance", with each song sung by a different character.

Portico Quartet sound like nothing you ever heard before. The Mercury nominated East London based outfit's unique music has expanded to embrace new sonic territories. Drawing on the inspiration of electronica, ambient, classical and dance music as they take their strange, beautiful, cinematic, future music to exciting new vistas where the inspiration of Burial, Mount Kimbie and Flying Lotus rubs shoulders with the textures of Arve Henriksen and Bon Iver and echoes of Steve Reich and Max Richter. But all underpinned by a shared joy in collective music making as the band push their inimitable music into the future.