Gitika Partington has released thirteen albums at once, and in doing so has broken the world record for the most albums released in a single day, a record that stood at twelve as of 2025. The project is called ‘Twelvefold,’ it comprises 130 original songs written and recorded over five years, and it is out now in its entirety via Bandcamp.
The project began as nine albums, then became ten, then twelve. Thirteen showed up on its own. Composed incrementally over five years through a weekly songwriting practice, the albums form a chronological record of time passing, built around prompts from the iheartsongwritingclub.com community based in Brisbane, Australia. The songs come in the order they were written. There is no prescribed starting point. Partington invites listeners to wander through the music however feels natural.
The creative philosophy behind the project is as interesting as the music itself. This is not a commercial release cycle or an algorithm-chasing strategy. Partington describes it as an artistic gesture, proof that creativity does not require permission or external validation. Many of the songs are messages from herself to herself, reflections on the day they were written, moments of therapy, quirky observations, and uncomfortable truths. Pleasing no one but herself was the point, and the result is 130 songs that feel genuinely free.
Tom Robinson of BBC Radio 6 and Amazing Radio called Partington “a force of nature” during the pandemic period of the project, when she produced nine virtual choir videos with community filmmaker and choir member Bob Karper. That energy runs through the entire ‘Twelvefold’ undertaking.
As a final flourish, Partington is inviting 130 people to handwrite one lyric each on an A4 page with their own creative additions, doodles, origami, paintings, or whatever feels right, to be compiled into a printed book. Thirteen albums, one record broken, and the next project already taking shape.