Zena White is in a taxi, riding to work at Partisan’s New York HQ in Brooklyn. Recently, she’s been yo-yoing between America, where she moved in the summer of 2017 as the indie’s MD, and the UK, where the label has been lighting up the independent scene of late.

Accolades for its artists (a BRIT nomination and a Top 5 album for Idles, plus Mercury Prize nods for them and Fontaines DC, who hit the Top 10 with their debut) ...