Soft Power Records

{{short description|Scottish independent record label}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox record label | name = Soft Power Records | image = | image_bg = | founded = 2010 | defunct = 2016 | founder = Bek & Graeme Galloway | distributor = | genre = Indie pop, indie rock, noise pop | country = United Kingdom | location = Livingston, West Lothian | url = https://softpowerrecords.bandcamp.com/<br>http://www.softpowervinyl.bigcartel.com/ }}

'''Soft Power Records''' was a Scottish independent record label and online record shop based in Livingston, West Lothian and active from 2010 to 2016. It was founded by Bek & Graeme Galloway.<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE">{{cite web|url=http://diymag.com/archive/label-intensive-soft-power-records|title=Label Intensive: Soft Power Records|first=Lucy|last=Dearlove|publisher=DIY|date=1 May 2012|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="Is This Music">{{cite web|url=http://www.isthismusic.com/soft-power-records|title=Soft Power Records A Label of Love|first=Stuart|last=McHugh|publisher=Is This Music?|date=9 August 2012|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="21st Century Perspectives">{{cite encyclopedia|title=21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture: Listening Spaces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubTtCwAAQBAJ&q=bek+and+graeme+soft+power+records&pg=PA38|year=2016|publisher=Palgrave MacMillan|isbn = 9781137497604|editor-first1=Richard|editor-last1=Purcell|editor-first2=Richard|editor-last2=Randall|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref> It specialised in indie and noise pop music.

All of their releases were in an analogue format (though accompanied by digital downloads), usually vinyl records or cassette.<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/><ref name="Is This Music"/>

==Artists released by Soft Power== *Aggi Doom<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/> *Beat Mark<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/><ref name="Is This Music"/><ref name="Amazing Radio"/> *Big Wave<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/><ref name="Amazing Radio"/> *Blood of the Bull *Cruising<ref name="Amazing Radio"/> *The Debutantes<ref name="Amazing Radio"/> *Dirty Beaches<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/> *Dog Legs *Dora Maar *H. Grimace *The Hollows *Holy Motors *HUNK!<ref name="Is This Music"/> *Kaspar Hauser *Obedient Wives Club<ref name="Is This Music"/> *Conor Prendergast *The Rosy Crucifixion *September Girls<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/><ref name="Is This Music"/><ref name="21st Century Perspectives"/><ref name="Amazing Radio"/> *The Spook School<ref name="Amazing Radio"/> *The Tamborines *Theoretical Girl<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/> *Trogons<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/> *The Wharves<ref name="Amazing Radio"/> *Witching Waves<ref name="Witching Waves AllMusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/witching-waves-mn0003482991/biography|title=Witching Waves Biography|first=Tim|last=Sendra|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="Amazing Radio">{{cite web|url=https://amazingradio.com/news-2/interviews/label-profile-soft-power-records|title=Label Profile: Soft Power Records|publisher=Amazing Radio|date=25 November 2014|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/18561/reviews/4148540|title=Album Review: Witching Waves – Fear of Falling Down|publisher=Drowned in Sound|access-date=2 March 2018|archive-date=1 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801190603/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/18561/reviews/4148540|url-status=dead}}</ref> *Wolf Girl

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Category:Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom Category:British independent record labels Category:Indie rock record labels Category:Record labels established in 2010 Category:Indie pop record labels