Keeled Scales

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Keeled Scales
Keeled scales logo.png
Founded2014;10 years ago (2014)
Founder
  • Tony Presley
  • Seth Whaland
Distributor(s)Secretly Distribution
Genre Indie rock
Country of originU.S.
Location Austin, Texas
Official website www.keeledscales.com

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.

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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]

  1. The Room Outside – The Room Outside
  2. Real Live Tigers – Tomboys
  3. The Shivers – Charades
  4. Mandarin Dynasty – Feedback Time
  5. Real Live Tigers – Denatured
  6. Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster – Date With The End
  7. Dubb Nubb – It's Weird In This World
  8. Caitlin Kraus – Waiting For The World
  9. LRN GRN – Easy Spirits/Grape Perfume
  10. Adam Torres – Pearls To Swine
  11. Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster – Constant Stranger
  12. Lindsay Clark – Home of the Brave
  13. Lindsay Clark – Begin
  14. Knife in the Water – Reproduction
  15. Human Behavior – Cancer: As Seen From Basement
  16. Future Museums – Visible Nest
  17. RF Shannon – Other Trails
  18. Julia Lucille – Chthonic
  19. Julia Lucille – Bedroom Tapes, Vol. 1
  20. Brice Randall Bickford – PARO
  21. LRN GRN – No Water/Only Light
  22. Moses Nesh – No Labor-Saving Machine
  23. Alex Dupree – You Winsome, You Lonesome
  24. M. Bailey Stephenson – Sitting with Sounds and Listening for Ghosts
  25. David Dondero – Spider West Myshkin and a City Bus
  26. Katy Kirby – Juniper
  27. Twain – Rare Feeling
  28. Future Museums – Heart Pulp
  29. Lake Mary – River Ceremony
  30. Buck Meek – Buck Meek
  31. Sun June – Years
  32. Twain – 2 E.P.s
  33. Jo Schornikow – Secret Weapon
  34. Sun June – Jeff Demos (tour cassette)
  35. Twain – Adventure
  36. Jordan Moser – Long Night
  37. Erin Durant – Islands
  38. Will Johnson – Wire Mountain
  39. Sun June – Somewhere
  40. RF Shannon – Rain On Dust
  41. David Dondero – The Transient
  42. The Deer – Do No Harm
  43. Buck Meek – Two Saviors
  44. Tenci – My Heart Is An Open Field
  45. Adam Ostrar – The Worried Coat
  46. Katy Kirby – Cool Dry Place
  47. Good Looks – Bummer Year
  48. Will Johnson – El Capitan
  49. Moriah Bailey – I Tried Words
  50. Renée Reed – s/t
  51. Jo Schornikow – Altar
  52. Karima Walker – Waking the Dreaming Body
  53. Jordan Moser – Peril
  54. Twain – Noon
  55. Lunar Vacation – Inside Every Fig is a Dead Wasp
  56. RF Shannon – Red Swan in Palmetto
  57. Alex Dupree – Thieves
  58. Tenci – A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing
  59. The Deer – The Beautiful Undead
  60. Rae Fitzgerald – Say I Look Happy
  61. Meernaa – So Far So Good
  62. Why Bonnie – 90 in November
  63. Will Johnson – No Ordinary Crown
  64. Karima Walker – demos

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  2. ↑ "Big Thief, Sharon Van Etten, Black Belt Eagle Scout, and More Contribute to Indigenous Benefit Album". Pitchfork. September 30, 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Faster Than Sound: Austin Imprint Keeled Scales Partners With Polyvinyl Records". The Austin Chronicle. June 4, 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
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