Optical Sounds is a Toronto based record label that was launched in 2008 by brothers Robert and Richard Gibson. The label is focused on a community of underground bands with broad psychedelic influences with The Embassy Bar in Kensington Market serving as a common meeting place for the musicians. The label's 2012 compilation Psych Pop From Toronto was curated by Spacemen 3's Will Carruthers and reached the Top 20 of the Canadian campus radio charts. The label and its artists have showcased at Canadian Music Week, North by Northeast, and South by Southwest.