History
On June 30, 2006, Phil Waldorf founded Dead Oceans with Chris Swanson. [5] [1] [6] Swanson suggested the name Dead Oceans, which came from the lyrics of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (1963). [7] [8] Chris' brother Ben Swanson, Darius Van Arman, and Jonathan Cargill of Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar also helped to found the label. [9] [10] The label was officially launched in 2007, and is part of Secretly Group. [11] [5]
During its early years, Dead Oceans released albums by artists such as Phosphorescent, Dirty Projectors, Akron/Family, Califone and Bowerbirds. [12] Over time, the label's roster expanded to include Mitski, Japanese Breakfast, Destroyer, and Phoebe Bridgers. [13] [14] [15] The label also serves as the parent imprint for Saddest Factory Records, founded by Bridgers in 2020.
In 2012, Dead Oceans released Bill Fay's album Life Is People , his first in over forty years. [16] [17] In 2017, the label released shoegaze band Slowdive's first album in 22 years. [18] [19] [20]
In 2018, Dead Oceans was ranked No. 7 on Paste magazine's top-10 record labels and won the Libera Award for Label of the Year. [21] [22] [23]
In 2020, the label released the Bright Eyes album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was. [24] The following year, the band transferred its earlier recordings, previously released through Saddle Creek Records, to Dead Oceans. [25] [26]
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