Keeled Scales

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). 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.

In 2021, Keeled Scales entered into a partnership with fellow indie label Polyvinyl Records, but still retains creative control over its operations.

Also in 2021, the Austin Chronicle named Keeled Scales “Best Quiet Giant,” praising the label for its “stacked roster and tastemaking reputation.”

Discography
The following are the albums released by the label:


 * 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