Our favorite new music releases from 3/24/23. Playlist is available at the bottom of the post.
Alternative
Artist: DEBBY FRIDAY
Album: GOOD LUCK
Listen to First: "SO HARD TO TELL"
Artist: Lucinda Chua
Album: YIAN
Listen to First: "Golden"
Artist: Meg Myers*
Album: TZIA
Listen to First: "My Mirror"
Artist: Semaphore
Album: I Need a Reason to Stay
Listen to First: "Fading (I Need A Reason to Stay)"
Electronic
Artist: No Cosmos, Scott Bevins
Album: you iii everything else
Listen to First: "Almost Lost You"
Experimental
Artist: Ben Sloan
Album: muted colors
Listen to First: "Philistine"
Folk
Artist: Wilder Woods*
Album: FEVER / SKY
Listen to First: "Maestro (Tears Don't Lie)"
Artist: Zack Rosen
Album: SYZYGY
Listen to First: "Mirror In The Sun"
Hip-Hop
Artist: ICECOLDBISHOP
Album: GENERATIONAL CURSE
Listen to First: "FOCUSED"
Artist: Kool Keith & Read Bad Man
Album: Serpent
Listen to First: "The Great Marlowe"
Indie
Artist: Alé Araya
Album: In Visions
Listen to First: "Janet"
Artist: Milku*
Album: You Make Me Feel Beautiful EP
Listen to First: "Alone"
Artist: The Natural Lines
Album: The Natural Lines
Listen to First: "Monotony"
Artist: Noble Rot (Alex Edkins of METZ and Graham Walsh of Holy Fuck)
Album: Heavenly Bodies, Repetition, Control
Listen to First: "Casting No Light"
Artist: Pitou
Album: Big Tear
Listen to First: "Devote"
Artist: Softcult*
Album: see you in the dark EP
Listen to First: "Someone2Me"
Instrumental
Artist: Jenny Conlee (of The Decemberists)
Album: Tides: Pieces for Accordion and Piano
Listen to First: "Hawk (Dorian)"
Metal
Artist: August Burns Red
Album: Death Below
Listen to First: "Ancestry"
Artist: Ihsahn*
Album: Fascination Street Sessions EP
Listen to First: "Contorted Monuments"
Artist: Morass of Molasses
Album: End All We Know
Listen to First: "Naysayer"
Artist: OTTTO (feat. Tye Trujillo)
Album: Life Is a Game
Listen to First: "My Pain"
Artist: Shores of Null
Album: The Loss of Beauty
Listen to First: "My Darkest Years"
Pop
Artist: Kid Moxie & Nina
Album: Lust EP
Listen to First: "Electric Kiss"
Artist: Mereki
Album: Death of a Cloud
Listen to First: "Phone Call"
Artist: N NAO*
Album: L’eau et les rêves
Listen to First: "11:11"
Punk
Artist: The Bouncing Souls*
Album: Ten Stories High
Listen to First: "Ten Stories High"
Rock
Artist: Dick Stusso
Album: S.P.
Listen to First: "Garbagedump #1"
Artist: Grand Royale
Album: Welcome to Grime Town
Listen to First: "Tell Me"
Artist: Purling Hiss*
Album: Drag on Girard
Listen to First: "Yer All In My Dreams"
Singer-Songwriter
Artist: Darren Jessee
Album: Central Bridge
Listen to First: "Love and Thanks"
Playlist
*An asterisk denotes that this release was one of our featured top 4 or 8 of the week.
This list is created by listening to all the releases listed on Consequence with under 1 million monthly listeners. If you have an upcoming release that you’d like to be considered for a future list, please fill out the "New Artist Submission" form on our site with the above information as well as a link to listen.
Please note: all submissions will be added to our “Artist Submissions” playlist but may or may not be included on our Friday Release Picks.