# Soft Power Records

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{{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](/source/Indie_pop), [indie rock](/source/indie_rock), [noise pop](/source/noise_pop)
| country     = United Kingdom
| location    = [Livingston, West Lothian](/source/Livingston%2C_West_Lothian) 
| url         = https://softpowerrecords.bandcamp.com/<br>http://www.softpowervinyl.bigcartel.com/
}}

'''Soft Power Records''' was a Scottish [independent](/source/independent_music) [record label](/source/record_label) and online [record shop](/source/record_shop) based in [Livingston, West Lothian](/source/Livingston%2C_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](/source/DIY_(magazine))|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](/source/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](/source/indie_pop) and [noise pop](/source/noise_pop) music.

All of their releases were in an analogue format (though accompanied by digital downloads), usually [vinyl records](/source/vinyl_records) or [cassette](/source/Compact_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](/source/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](/source/September_Girls)<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/><ref name="Is This Music"/><ref name="21st Century Perspectives"/><ref name="Amazing Radio"/>
*[The Spook School](/source/The_Spook_School_(band))<ref name="Amazing Radio"/>
*The Tamborines
*[Theoretical Girl](/source/Theoretical_Girl)<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/>
*Trogons<ref name="DIY LABEL INTENSIVE"/>
*The Wharves<ref name="Amazing Radio"/>
*[Witching Waves](/source/Witching_Waves_(band))<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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Wolf_Girl_(British_band))

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Category:British independent record labels
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Category:Record labels established in 2010
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