Keeled Scales Explained

Keeled Scales
Distributor:Secretly Distribution
Genre:Indie rock
Country:U.S.
Location:Austin, Texas

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]

  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

Notes and References

  1. News: Keeled Scales Series . . August 23, 2016. 19 November 2023.
  2. News: Big Thief, Sharon Van Etten, Black Belt Eagle Scout, and More Contribute to Indigenous Benefit Album . . September 30, 2020. 19 November 2023.
  3. News: Faster Than Sound: Austin Imprint Keeled Scales Partners With Polyvinyl Records . . June 4, 2021. 19 November 2023.
  4. News: Best Quiet Giant – Keeled Scales . . 2021. 19 November 2023.
  5. Web site: Keeled Scales Discography . 19 November 2023.

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