| Keeled Scales | |
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| Founded | 2014 |
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| Distributor(s) | Secretly Distribution |
| Genre | Indie rock |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | Austin, Texas |
| Official website | www |
Keeled Scales is an independent record label based in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2014 by musicians Tony Presley (Real Live Tigers) and Seth Whaland (Literature, Tres Oui).[1] The label has released over 60 albums from artists such as Buck Meek (of Big Thief), Katy Kirby, Lunar Vacation, Sun June and more.
In 2020, the label helped curate a benefit compilation to support the Estok’Gna, an indigenous Texas tribe, in their efforts to protest the building of a gas pipeline through their lands.[2]
In 2021, Keeled Scales entered into a partnership with fellow indie label Polyvinyl Records, but still retains creative control over its operations.[3]
Also in 2021, the Austin Chronicle named Keeled Scales “Best Quiet Giant,” praising the label for its “stacked roster and tastemaking reputation.” [4]
Discography
The following are the albums released by the label:[5]
- The Room Outside - The Room Outside
- Real Live Tigers - Tomboys
- The Shivers - Charades
- Mandarin Dynasty - Feedback Time
- Real Live Tigers - Denatured
- Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster - Date With The End
- Dubb Nubb - It's Weird In This World
- Caitlin Kraus - Waiting For The World
- LRN GRN - Easy Spirits/Grape Perfume
- Adam Torres - Pearls To Swine
- Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster - Constant Stranger
- Lindsay Clark - Home of the Brave
- Lindsay Clark - Begin
- Knife in the Water - Reproduction
- Human Behavior - Cancer: As Seen From Basement
- Future Museums - Visible Nest
- RF Shannon - Other Trails
- Julia Lucille - Chthonic
- Julia Lucille - Bedroom Tapes, Vol. 1
- Brice Randall Bickford - PARO
- LRN GRN - No Water/Only Light
- Moses Nesh - No Labor-Saving Machine
- Alex Dupree - You Winsome, You Lonesome
- M. Bailey Stephenson - Sitting with Sounds and Listening for Ghosts
- David Dondero - Spider West Myshkin and a City Bus
- Katy Kirby - Juniper
- Twain - Rare Feeling
- Future Museums - Heart Pulp
- Lake Mary - River Ceremony
- Buck Meek - Buck Meek
- Sun June - Years
- Twain - 2 E.P.s
- Jo Schornikow - Secret Weapon
- Sun June - Jeff Demos (tour cassette)
- Twain - Adventure
- Jordan Moser - Long Night
- Erin Durant - Islands
- Will Johnson - Wire Mountain
- Sun June - Somewhere
- RF Shannon - Rain On Dust
- David Dondero - The Transient
- The Deer - Do No Harm
- Buck Meek - Two Saviors
- Tenci - My Heart Is An Open Field
- Adam Ostrar - The Worried Coat
- Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place
- Good Looks - Bummer Year
- Will Johnson - El Capitan
- Moriah Bailey - I Tried Words
- Renée Reed - s/t
- Jo Schornikow - Altar
- Karima Walker - Waking the Dreaming Body
- Jordan Moser - Peril
- Twain - Noon
- Lunar Vacation - Inside Every Fig is a Dead Wasp
- RF Shannon - Red Swan in Palmetto
- Alex Dupree - Thieves
- Tenci - A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing
- The Deer - The Beautiful Undead
- Rae Fitzgerald - Say I Look Happy
- Meernaa - So Far So Good
- Why Bonnie - 90 in November
- Will Johnson - No Ordinary Crown
- Karima Walker - demos
References
- ↑ "Keeled Scales Series". KUTX. August 23, 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ↑ "Big Thief, Sharon Van Etten, Black Belt Eagle Scout, and More Contribute to Indigenous Benefit Album". Pitchfork. September 30, 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ↑ "Faster Than Sound: Austin Imprint Keeled Scales Partners With Polyvinyl Records". The Austin Chronicle. June 4, 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ↑ "Best Quiet Giant - Keeled Scales". The Austin Chronicle. 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ↑ "Keeled Scales Discography". Retrieved 19 November 2023.