New Music Friday Release Picks (4/21/23 & 4/28/23)
Our favorite New Music Friday releases from 4/21/23 and 4/28/23. Playlist is available at the bottom of the post.
Alternative
Artist: Baba Ali
Album: Laugh Like a Bomb
Listen to First: "Yves Klein Blue"
Artist: Deb Never*
Album: Thank You For Attending EP
Listen to First: "Momentary Sweetheart"
Artist: Lunar Bird
Album: The Birthday Party
Listen to First: "Creatures"
Artist: Melati ESP
Album: hipernatural
Listen to First: "ANDA KATAKAN"
Artist: Nathan Connolly (of Snow Patrol)*
Album: The Strange Order of Things
Listen to First: "Fires"
Artist: Skinny Pelembe*
Album: Hardly the Same Snake
Listen to First: "Like A Heart Won't Beat"
Artist: Susanne Sundfør
Album: blómi*
Listen to First: "leikara ljóð"
Artist: Zoon
Album: Bekka Ma’iingan
Listen to First: "A Language Disappears"
Electronic
Artist: Amon Tobin, Two Fingers, and Cujo
Album: Nomark Selects V. 1
Listen to First: "Cruel Like Flint"
Artist: Avalon Emerson
Album: & The Charm
Listen to First: "Karaoke Song"
Folk
Artist: Neev
Album: Katherine
Listen to First: "Will I Change You"
Artist: Photo Ops*
Album: Burns Bright
Listen to First: "You Must Not Need A Friend At All"
Hip-Hop/Rap
Artist: KAMAUU*
Album: LACUNA in the House of Mirrors
Listen to First: "switch up"
Artist: Nukuluk
Album: SUPERGLUE EP
Listen to First: "Covered in Gold"
Artist: Swizz Beatz
Album: Hip Hop 50: Vol. 2 EP
Listen to First: "Runaway (feat. Nas)"
Indie
Artist: Christof van der Ven
Album: Haul EP
Listen to First: "What's In It For"
Artist: Léa Sen*
Album: You of Now, Pt. 2 EP
Listen to First: "Dragonfly"
Artist: Melanie MacLaren
Album: Tourist EP
Listen to First: "Dissociating at a Tiki Bar in a Landlocked State"
Artist: Moreish Idols
Album: Lock Eyes & Collide EP
Listen to First: "Nocturnal Creatures"
Artist: Nabihah Iqbal
Album: DREAMER
Listen to First: "Dreamer"
Artist: Ryan Beatty
Album: Calico
Listen to First: "Ribbons"
Artist: Sock
Album: Sock
Listen to First: "Gone Are The Days"
Artist: Tiny Ruins
Album: Ceremony
Listen to First: "Dogs Dreaming"
Artist: Waking Dreams
Album: Sliding Lines
Listen to First: "Downfall"
Jazz
Artist: Dominic Miller
Album: Vagabond
Listen to First: "Clandestin"
Artist: The Jon Stickley Trio
Album: Meantime’s Up
Listen to First: "Take The Air"
Pop
Artist: Bestfriend
Album: places i’ve left EP
Listen to First: "Love Always Came So Easy for You"
Artist: Harriette
Album: I Heart the Internet EP
Listen to First: "Fucking Married"
Artist: Joseph
Album: The Sun
Listen to First: "Waves Crash"
Artist: Peach PRC
Album: Manic Dream Pixie EP
Listen to First: "F U Goodbye"
Punk
Artist: Teenage Bottlerocket
Album: So Dumb/So Stoked EP
Listen to First: "So Dumb"
Rock
Artist: Hannah Grae
Album: Hell is a Teenage Girl
Listen to First: "Propaganda"
Artist: Single Mothers*
Album: Roy
Listen to First: "Sad Dumb Game"
New Music Friday Release Picks 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 music Friday 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.