Partisan Records
{{Short description|American independent record label}}
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{{Infobox record label
| name = Partisan Records
| image = Partisan Records RGB Black small.png
| founded = {{start date|2007}}
| founder = Tim Putnam
Ian Wheeler
| distributor = Virgin Music Group
| genre = {{hlist|Indie rock|rock|folk|avant-garde music}}
| country = U.S.
| location = Brooklyn, New York
| website = {{URL|www.partisanrecords.com}}
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Partisan Records is an independent record label with offices in London, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as in New York City, where the company was co-founded in 2007 by Tim Putnam and Ian Wheeler. The label, initially run out of Putnam's South Brooklyn apartment, relocated in 2009 to Williamsburg.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pluginmusic.com/news/archive.php?id=3903 |title=Plug In Music News Story: Partisan Records Give Home To Deer Tick, The Standard, Holy Sons |access-date=2008-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174833/http://www.pluginmusic.com/news/archive.php?id=3903 |archive-date=2018-03-14 |url-status=dead }}
History
Holy Sons (Decline of the West) was the first release on the label, and early success followed shortly thereafter with the signing of the band Deer Tick (War Elephant).[http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/11/deer_tick_recor.html Brooklyn Vegan: Deer Tick Album Re-Release]
In 2008, while working as the night manager for the Knitting Factory venue at their Leonard Street location in Manhattan, Putnam was approached by Knitting Factory Entertainment CEO Morgan Margolis to form a strategic partnership with Partisan.[http://www.wmg.com/news/renowned-indie-labels-partisan-and-knitting-factory-records-partner-alternative-distribution WMG News: Renowned Indie Labels Partisan and Knitting Factory Records Partner With ADA] Together, they reissued the Fela Kuti catalogue and revived their label, Knitting Factory Records, which also includes Grammy Award-nominated members of the Kuti family, Femi Kuti, and Seun Kuti.[https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/zena-white-named-md-partisan-records-knitting-factory-records/ Music Business Worldwide: Zena White Named MD of Partisan Records + KFR]
Partisan has since cultivated a wide variety of genres, prioritizing an artist-friendly philosophy, and achieving international acclaim. In 2019, they earned their first-ever Grammy nomination for Deran by Bombino[https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/8489192/2019-grammy-nominations-artists-react-tweets Billboard: Bombino Reacts to Grammy Nomination] followed by three more nominations between 2020 and 2023, for A Hero's Death by Fontaines D.C., Song for Our Daughter by Laura Marling, and I Inside the Old Year Dying by PJ Harvey.{{Cite web |title=2021 Grammy Award Nominations: The Full List |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailfreeman/2020/11/24/2021-grammy-award-nominations-list/?sh=1869616b5239}}{{Cite web |title=2024 GRAMMYs: See The Full Winners & Nominees List |url=https://grammy.com/news/2024-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=grammy.com}} In 2020, they achieved a #1 UK album for Ultra Mono by Idles, followed up by further #1 UK albums for Fontaines D.C.'s Skinty Fia and Idles's Tangk.{{Cite web |title=Idles Blast to Big Lead on Midweek U.K. Chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9456514/idles-lead-midweek-uk-chart}}{{Cite web |date=2022-04-29 |title=Fontaines D.C. celebrate their first-ever UK Number 1 album with Skinty Fia: "We're touched by everyone's response" |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/fontaines-dc-celebrate-their-first-ever-uk-number-1-album-with-skinty-fia-we-re-touched-by-everyone-s-response-__36205/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Official Charts |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-02-23 |title=Idles secure second Number 1 album with TANGK |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/idles-secure-second-number-1-album-with-tangk/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Official Charts |language=en}} They also won their first Mercury Prize in 2023 for Ezra Collective's Where I'm Meant to Be.{{Cite web |title=Mercury Prize 2023 winner announced as Ezra Collective |url=https://news.sky.com/story/mercury-prize-2023-winner-announced-as-ezra-collective-12956600 |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Sky News |language=en}}
Music Week's International Woman of the Year award went to Partisan's managing director, Zena White, in 2019.[https://www.musicweek.com/interviews/read/we-re-not-in-competition-with-anyone-partisan-records-the-music-week-interview/077353 Music Week: Partisan Records - The Music Week Interview]
Putnam now serves as President of Partisan, and Wheeler manages Talkhouse, a digital media outlet and online magazine which he founded in 2015 and shares an office with Partisan.[https://www.talkhouse.com/about/ian-wheeler-publisher/ Talkhouse: Ian Wheeler]
Today, Partisan also releases music on behalf of sister labels Knitting Factory Records, Section1, and Desert Daze Sound, all of which operate under strategic partnerships with Partisan.{{Cite web |last=Alternative Distribution Alliance |date=2013-08-29 |title=Renowned Indie Labels Partisan and Knitting Factory Records Partner With Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) |url=https://www.wmg.com/news/renowned-indie-labels-partisan-and-knitting-factory-records-partner-alternative-distribution |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Warner Music Group |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Stassen |first=Murray |date=2021-03-04 |title=Partisan Records launches new joint venture label section1 |url=https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/partisan-records-launches-new-joint-venture-label-section1/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Music Business Worldwide |language=}}{{Cite web |last=Pearis |first=Bill Pearis |title=Zamrock legends W.I.T.C.H. announce first album in 39 years, share "Avalanche of Love" ft. Sampa the Great |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/zamrock-legends-w-i-t-c-h-announce-first-album-in-39-years-share-avalanche-of-love-ft-sampa-the-great/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=}}
Roster
= Current =
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- Angelica Garcia
- Aoife Nessa Frances
- Beth Orton
- Blondshell
- Body Meat
- Bombino
- Cameron Winter
- Cigarettes After Sex
- Cymande
- DJ Rashad
- Ezra Collective
- Fela Kuti
- Femi Kuti
- Geese
- Grian Chatten
- Honesty
- Idles
- Just Mustard
- Laura Marling
- Léa Sen
- Lip Critic
- Maple Glider
- NoSo
- PJ Harvey
- Skinny Pelembe
- Sun's Signature
- TTSSFU
- Ultraísta
- Westerman
- WITCH
{{div col end}}
=Alumni=
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- Aaron Freeman
- Aerial East
- Ages and Ages
- The Amazing
- Baby in Vain
- The Black Angels
- Bobby
- Body Type
- Cajun Germs
- Callers
- Christopher Denny
- Chubby and the Gang
- Craig Finn
- Deer Tick
- Diamond Rugs
- Dilly Dally
- The Dismemberment Plan
- DMA's
- Dolorean
- Eagulls
- Emel Mathlouthi
- Emily Wells
- Erika Wennerstrom (of Heartless Bastards)
- Femi Kuti
- Field Report
- Flock of Dimes
- Fontaines D.C.
- Freeman
- Goon
- Guards
- Heartless Bastards
- Holy Sons
- JBM
- John Grant
- Lontalius
- Lumerians
- Lump
- Mádé Kuti
- Made of Oak
- Mercury Rev
- Middle Brother
- Molly Sarlé
- Mountain Man
- Nico Yaryan
- Paleo
- Phox
- Pottery
- Pure Bathing Culture
- Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
- Sam Burton
- Spike Fcuk
- The Standard
- Sylvan Esso
- Tender
- Torres
- Treetop Flyers
- Violents
- Virgin Forest
- Warm Ghost
- The Wytches
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Discography
{{Unreferenced section|date=April 2021}}
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Artist ! scope="col" | Release ! scope="col" | Notes |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" |2008
| |
|---|
| Holy Sons
|Decline of the West | |
| Deer Tick
| |
| scope="row" rowspan="5" |2010
|Deer Tick | |
| Mountain Man
|Made The Harbor | |
| Holy Sons
|Survivalists Tales! | |
| Paleo
|A View of the Sky | |
| Deer Tick / Johnny Corndawg
|Water Friends For | |
| scope="row" rowspan="11" |2011
|The Unfazed | |
| Ages and Ages
|Alright, You Restless | |
| Warm Ghost
|Uncut Diamond (EP) | |
| Bobby
| |
| Lumerians
|Transmalinnia | |
| Middle Brother
| |
| Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
|Dirty Radio | |
| Paleo
|Fruit of the Spirit | |
| Warm Ghost
|Narrows | |
| Virgin Forest
|Joy Atrophy | |
| Deer Tick
| |
| scope="row" rowspan="10" |2012
|Easy Way Out | |
| Heartless Bastards
| |
| Deer Tick
|Tim (EP) | |
| Emily Wells
|Mama | |
| Diamond Rugs
|Diamond Rugs | |
| Freeman
|Marvelous Clouds | |
| The Amazing
|Gentle Stream | |
| Field Report
|Field Report | |
| Callers
|Reviver | |
| Lumerians
|Horizon Structures | |
| scope="row" rowspan="9" |2013
|Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside |Untamed Beast | |
| John Grant
| |
| Emily Wells
|Mama Acoustic Recordings | |
| Treetop Flyers
| |
| Pure Bathing Culture
| |
| Lumerians
|The High Frontier | |
| Deer Tick
| |
| The Dismemberment Plan
| |
| Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
|Summer (EP) | |
| scope="row" rowspan="9" |2014
|Eagulls |Eagulls | |
| Ages and Ages
|Divisionary | |
| Sylvan Esso
| |
| Phox
|Phox | |
| Freeman
| |
| Christopher Denny
|If the Roses Don't Kill Us | |
| The Wytches
| |
| Field Report
|Marigolden | |
| The Dismemberment Plan
| |
| scope="row" rowspan="12" |2015
|The Amazing |Picture You | |
| Torres
| |
| Heartless Bastards
| |
| Sylvan Esso
|H.S.K.T. | |
| Craig Finn
|Faith In The Future | |
| Dilly Dally
|Sore | |
| John Grant
| |
| Pure Bathing Culture
|Pray for Rain | |
| Made of Oak
|Penumbra | |
| Sylvan Esso / Flock of Dimes
|Split single | |
| Holy Sons
|Decline Of The West Vol I.& II. (Deluxe Reissue) | |
| Nico Yaryan
|Just Tell Me | |
| scope="row" rowspan="12" |2016
|Lontalius |I'll Forget 17 | |
| Bombino
|Azel | |
| Baby In Vain
|For the Kids | |
| John Grant
|Queen of Denmark | |
| Eagulls
|Ullages | |
| Nico Yaryan
|What a Tease | |
| The Amazing
|Ambulance | |
| Ages and Ages
|Something to Ruin | |
| Flock of Dimes
| |
| Dilly Dally
|FKKT (EP) | |
| Holy Sons
|In the Garden | |
| Tender
|EP III | |
| scope="row" rowspan="10" |2017
| |
| Emel
| |
| Craig Finn
|We All Want the Same Things | |
| The Black Angels
|Death Song | |
| Violents & Monica Martin
|Awake and Pretty Much Sober | |
| Cigarettes After Sex
|Cigarettes After Sex | |
| Baby In Vain
|More Nothing | |
| Tender
|Modern Addiction | |
| Deer Tick
|Deer Tick Vol. 1 | |
| Deer Tick
|Deer Tick Vol. 2 | |
| scope="row" rowspan="10" |2018
|Emel |Ensenity | |
| Erika Wennerstrom
|Sweet Unknown | |
| The Amazing
|In Transit | |
| Bombino
|Deran | |
| Goon
|Dusk of Punk - Happy Omen | |
| Idles
| |
| Dilly Dally
|Heaven | |
| John Grant
|Love Is Magic | |
| Idles with Heavy Lungs
|Split 7" Single | |
| Cigarettes After Sex
|Crush 7" | |
| scope="row" rowspan="15" |2019
|Mayonnaise | |
| Tender
|Fear of Falling Asleep | |
| Mercury Rev
|Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisted | |
| Craig Finn
|I Need a New War | |
| John Grant
|Remixes Are Also Magic | |
| Fontaines D.C.
|Dogrel | |
| Body Type
|Body Type EP & EP2 | |
| Pottery
|No.1 EP | |
| Goon
|Heaven is Humming | |
| Idles
|Mercedes Marxist 7 inch | |
| Spike Fuck
|Smackwave EP | |
| Molly Sarlé
|Karaoke Angel | |
| Emel Mathlouthi
|Everywhere We Looked Was Burning | |
| Cigarettes After Sex
|Cry | |
| Idles
|A Beautiful Thing: Idles Live at Le Bataclan | |
| scope="row" rowspan="11" |2020
|Sister | |
| Laura Marling
| |
| Westerman
|Your Hero is Not Dead | |
| Pottery
|Welcome to Bobby's Motel | |
| Fontaines D.C.
| |
| Craig Finn
|All These Perfect Crosses | |
| Idles
|UK #1 |
| Emel
|The Tunis Diaries | |
| Ultraìsta
|Ordinary Boy - The Remixes | |
| Chubby and The Gang
|Speed Kills | |
| Bombino
|Live in Amsterdam | |
| scope="row" rowspan="7" |2021
|Femi Kuti & Made Kuti |Legacy + | |
| Aerial East
|Try Harder | |
| Ultraìsta
|Sister - The Remixes | |
| John Grant
| |
| Maple Glider
|To Enjoy Is the Only Thing | |
| Lump
| |
| Chubby and the Gang
|The Mutt's Nuts | |
| scope="row" rowspan="10" |2022
| IE #1;{{Cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2022/0429/1295120-fontaines-d-c-claim-their-first-irish-no-1-album/|title=Fontaines D.C. score first No.1 album in UK and Ireland|website=RTÉ}} UK #1 |
| Just Mustard
|Heart Under | |
| NoSo
|Stay Proud of Me | |
| Léa Sen
|You of Now Pt. 1 | |
| The Black Angels
|Wilderness of Mirrors | |
| Beth Orton
|Weather Alive | |
| Aoife Nessa Frances
|Protector | |
| Ezra Collective
|Mercury Prize |
| Idles
|Five Years of Brutalism | |
| Cymande
|Cymande (Reissue) | |
| rowspan="16" scope="row" |2023
| |
| Skinny Pelembe
|Hardly the Same Snake | |
| Westerman
|An Inbuilt Fault | |
| Witch
| |
| Léa Sen
|You of Now Pt.2 | |
| Geese
| |
| Grian Chatten
| |
| PJ Harvey
|GRAMMY-Nominated |
| Sam Burton
|Dear Departed | |
| Sun's Signature
|Sun's Signature (Extended) | |
| Bombino
|Sahel | |
| Maple Glider
|I Get Into Trouble | |
| Geese
|4D Country | |
| HONESTY
|WHERE R U (EP) | |
| DJ Rashad
|Double Cup (Reissue) | |
| Cymande
|Second Time Round (Reissue) | |
| rowspan="12" scope="row"| 2024
|UK #1 GRAMMY-Nominated |
| Ezra Collective
|Where I'm Meant to Be (Deluxe) | |
| HONESTY
|Box (Mixtape) | |
| Lip Critic
| |
| Cymande
|Promised Heights (Reissue) | |
| Angélica Garcia
| |
| Cigarettes After Sex
|X's | |
| Body Meat
|Starchris | |
| Fela Kuti
|Alagbon Close (Reissue) | |
| Ezra Collective
|Brit Award-Winning |
| Laura Marling
| |
| Cameron Winter
| |
| rowspan="3" scope="row" | 2025
|HONESTY |U R HERE | |
| Femi Kuti
|Journey Through Life | |
| Blondshell
| |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.partisanrecords.com}}
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