# Partisan Records

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.

## 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).
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. 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.
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 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. 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. They also won their first Mercury Prize in 2023 for Ezra Collective's Where I'm Meant to Be.
Music Week's International Woman of the Year award went to Partisan's managing director, Zena White, in 2019.
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.
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.

## Roster
### Current

* 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

### Alumni

* 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

## Discography

| Year | Artist | Release | Notes |
| 2008 | Deer Tick | War Elephant | |
| 2008 | Holy Sons | Decline of the West | |
| 2008 | Deer Tick | Born on Flag Day | |
| 2010 | Deer Tick | The Black Dirt Sessions | |
| 2010 | Mountain Man | Made The Harbor | |
| 2010 | Holy Sons | Survivalists Tales! | |
| 2010 | Paleo | A View of the Sky | |
| 2010 | Deer Tick / Johnny Corndawg | Water Friends For | |
| 2011 | Dolorean | The Unfazed | |
| 2011 | Ages and Ages | Alright, You Restless | |
| 2011 | Warm Ghost | Uncut Diamond (EP) | |
| 2011 | Bobby | Bobby | |
| 2011 | Lumerians | Transmalinnia | |
| 2011 | Middle Brother | Middle Brother | |
| 2011 | Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside | Dirty Radio | |
| 2011 | Paleo | Fruit of the Spirit | |
| 2011 | Warm Ghost | Narrows | |
| 2011 | Virgin Forest | Joy Atrophy | |
| 2011 | Deer Tick | Divine Providence | |
| 2012 | Virgin Forest | Easy Way Out | |
| 2012 | Heartless Bastards | Arrow | |
| 2012 | Deer Tick | Tim (EP) | |
| 2012 | Emily Wells | Mama | |
| 2012 | Diamond Rugs | Diamond Rugs | |
| 2012 | Freeman | Marvelous Clouds | |
| 2012 | The Amazing | Gentle Stream | |
| 2012 | Field Report | Field Report | |
| 2012 | Callers | Reviver | |
| 2012 | Lumerians | Horizon Structures | |
| 2013 | Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside | Untamed Beast | |
| 2013 | John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | |
| 2013 | Emily Wells | Mama Acoustic Recordings | |
| 2013 | Treetop Flyers | The Mountain Moves | |
| 2013 | Pure Bathing Culture | Moon Tides | |
| 2013 | Lumerians | The High Frontier | |
| 2013 | Deer Tick | Negativity | |
| 2013 | The Dismemberment Plan | Uncanney Valley | |
| 2013 | Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside | Summer (EP) | |
| 2014 | Eagulls | Eagulls | |
| 2014 | Ages and Ages | Divisionary | |
| 2014 | Sylvan Esso | Sylvan Esso | |
| 2014 | Phox | Phox | |
| 2014 | Freeman | Freeman | |
| 2014 | Christopher Denny | If the Roses Don't Kill Us | |
| 2014 | The Wytches | Annabel Dream Reader | |
| 2014 | Field Report | Marigolden | |
| 2014 | The Dismemberment Plan | Uncanney Valley | |
| 2015 | The Amazing | Picture You | |
| 2015 | Torres | Sprinter | |
| 2015 | Heartless Bastards | Restless Ones | |
| 2015 | Sylvan Esso | H.S.K.T. | |
| 2015 | Craig Finn | Faith In The Future | |
| 2015 | Dilly Dally | Sore | |
| 2015 | John Grant | Grey Tickles, Black Pressure | |
| 2015 | Pure Bathing Culture | Pray for Rain | |
| 2015 | Made of Oak | Penumbra | |
| 2015 | Sylvan Esso / Flock of Dimes | Split single | |
| 2015 | Holy Sons | Decline Of The West Vol I.& II. (Deluxe Reissue) | |
| 2015 | Nico Yaryan | Just Tell Me | |
| 2016 | Lontalius | I'll Forget 17 | |
| 2016 | Bombino | Azel | |
| 2016 | Baby In Vain | For the Kids | |
| 2016 | John Grant | Queen of Denmark | |
| 2016 | Eagulls | Ullages | |
| 2016 | Nico Yaryan | What a Tease | |
| 2016 | The Amazing | Ambulance | |
| 2016 | Ages and Ages | Something to Ruin | |
| 2016 | Flock of Dimes | If You See Me, Say Yes | |
| 2016 | Dilly Dally | FKKT (EP) | |
| 2016 | Holy Sons | In the Garden | |
| 2016 | Tender | EP III | |
| 2017 | Idles | Brutalism | |
| 2017 | Emel | Ensen | |
| 2017 | Craig Finn | We All Want the Same Things | |
| 2017 | The Black Angels | Death Song | |
| 2017 | Violents & Monica Martin | Awake and Pretty Much Sober | |
| 2017 | Cigarettes After Sex | Cigarettes After Sex | |
| 2017 | Baby In Vain | More Nothing | |
| 2017 | Tender | Modern Addiction | |
| 2017 | Deer Tick | Deer Tick Vol. 1 | |
| 2017 | Deer Tick | Deer Tick Vol. 2 | |
| 2018 | Emel | Ensenity | |
| 2018 | Erika Wennerstrom | Sweet Unknown | |
| 2018 | The Amazing | In Transit | |
| 2018 | Bombino | Deran | |
| 2018 | Goon | Dusk of Punk - Happy Omen | |
| 2018 | Idles | Joy as an Act of Resistance | |
| 2018 | Dilly Dally | Heaven | |
| 2018 | John Grant | Love Is Magic | |
| 2018 | Idles with Heavy Lungs | Split 7" Single | |
| 2018 | Cigarettes After Sex | Crush 7" | |
| 2019 | Deer Tick | Mayonnaise | |
| 2019 | Tender | Fear of Falling Asleep | |
| 2019 | Mercury Rev | Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisted | |
| 2019 | Craig Finn | I Need a New War | |
| 2019 | John Grant | Remixes Are Also Magic | |
| 2019 | Fontaines D.C. | Dogrel | |
| 2019 | Body Type | Body Type EP & EP2 | |
| 2019 | Pottery | No.1 EP | |
| 2019 | Goon | Heaven is Humming | |
| 2019 | Idles | Mercedes Marxist 7 inch | |
| 2019 | Spike Fuck | Smackwave EP | |
| 2019 | Molly Sarlé | Karaoke Angel | |
| 2019 | Emel Mathlouthi | Everywhere We Looked Was Burning | |
| 2019 | Cigarettes After Sex | Cry | |
| 2019 | Idles | A Beautiful Thing: Idles Live at Le Bataclan | |
| 2020 | Ultraísta | Sister | |
| 2020 | Laura Marling | Song for Our Daughter | |
| 2020 | Westerman | Your Hero is Not Dead | |
| 2020 | Pottery | Welcome to Bobby's Motel | |
| 2020 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero's Death | |
| 2020 | Craig Finn | All These Perfect Crosses | |
| 2020 | Idles | Ultra Mono | UK #1 |
| 2020 | Emel | The Tunis Diaries | |
| 2020 | Ultraìsta | Ordinary Boy - The Remixes | |
| 2020 | Chubby and The Gang | Speed Kills | |
| 2020 | Bombino | Live in Amsterdam | |
| 2021 | Femi Kuti & Made Kuti | Legacy + | |
| 2021 | Aerial East | Try Harder | |
| 2021 | Ultraìsta | Sister - The Remixes | |
| 2021 | John Grant | Boy from Michigan | |
| 2021 | Maple Glider | To Enjoy Is the Only Thing | |
| 2021 | Lump | Animal | |
| 2021 | Chubby and the Gang | The Mutt's Nuts | |
| 2022 | Fontaines D.C. | Skinty Fia | IE #1; UK #1 |
| 2022 | Just Mustard | Heart Under | |
| 2022 | NoSo | Stay Proud of Me | |
| 2022 | Léa Sen | You of Now Pt. 1 | |
| 2022 | The Black Angels | Wilderness of Mirrors | |
| 2022 | Beth Orton | Weather Alive | |
| 2022 | Aoife Nessa Frances | Protector | |
| 2022 | Ezra Collective | Where I'm Meant to Be | Mercury Prize |
| 2022 | Idles | Five Years of Brutalism | |
| 2022 | Cymande | Cymande (Reissue) | |
| 2023 | Blondshell | Blondshell | |
| 2023 | Skinny Pelembe | Hardly the Same Snake | |
| 2023 | Westerman | An Inbuilt Fault | |
| 2023 | Witch | Zango | |
| 2023 | Léa Sen | You of Now Pt.2 | |
| 2023 | Geese | 3D Country | |
| 2023 | Grian Chatten | Chaos for the Fly | |
| 2023 | PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying | GRAMMY-Nominated |
| 2023 | Sam Burton | Dear Departed | |
| 2023 | Sun's Signature | Sun's Signature (Extended) | |
| 2023 | Bombino | Sahel | |
| 2023 | Maple Glider | I Get Into Trouble | |
| 2023 | Geese | 4D Country | |
| 2023 | HONESTY | WHERE R U (EP) | |
| 2023 | DJ Rashad | Double Cup (Reissue) | |
| 2023 | Cymande | Second Time Round (Reissue) | |
| 2024 | Idles | Tangk | UK #1 GRAMMY-Nominated |
| 2024 | Ezra Collective | Where I'm Meant to Be (Deluxe) | |
| 2024 | HONESTY | Box (Mixtape) | |
| 2024 | Lip Critic | Hex Dealer | |
| 2024 | Cymande | Promised Heights (Reissue) | |
| 2024 | Angélica Garcia | Gemelo | |
| 2024 | Cigarettes After Sex | X's | |
| 2024 | Body Meat | Starchris | |
| 2024 | Fela Kuti | Alagbon Close (Reissue) | |
| 2024 | Ezra Collective | Dance, No One's Watching | Brit Award-Winning |
| 2024 | Laura Marling | Patterns In Repeat | |
| 2024 | Cameron Winter | Heavy Metal | |
| 2025 | HONESTY | U R HERE | |