Our favorite New Music Friday releases from 5/12/23. Playlist is available at the bottom of the post.
Alternative
Artist: Island of Love
Album: Island of Love
Listen to First: "Grow"
Artist: Little Hurt
Album: Lovely Hours
Listen to First: "Get Out Of My Life"
Artist: Madison McFerrin
Album: I Hope You Can Forgive Me
Listen to First: "God Herself"
Artist: Magic Wands*
Album: Switch
Listen to First: "Falling Trees"
Artist: waveform*
Album: Antarctica
Listen to First: "Lonely"
Americana
Artist: Parker Millsap*
Album: Wilderness Within You
Listen to First: "So Far Apart"
Country
Artist: George Birge
Album: Mind On You
Listen to First: "Beer Beer, Truck Truck"
Electronic
Artist: Overmono
Album: Good Lies
Listen to First: "Coldblooded"
Emo
Artist: Hot Mulligan
Album: Why Would I Watch
Listen to First: "This Song is Called it's Called What's it Called"
Hip-Hop
Artist: Deante’ Hitchcock
Album: Once Upon A Time
Listen to First: "Like That"
Artist: JasonMartin, Problem, The Melodiks*
Album: I Owe Myself
Listen to First: "FUPAYME (feat. Nate Curry)"
Indie
Artist: BC Camplight
Album: The Last Rotation of Earth
Listen to First: "It Never Rains in Manchester"
Artist: Savannah Conley
Album: Playing the Part of You is Me
Listen to First: "Contortionist"
Instrumental & Ambient
Artist: Charlie Hall (of The War on Drugs)
Album: Invisible Ink
Listen to First: "Tamarama"
Artist: Oval
Album: Romantiq
Listen to First: "Okno"
Metal
Artist: DevilDriver
Album: Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Listen to First: "If Blood Is Life"
Pop
Artist: Harriet
Album: The Outcome
Listen to First: "Real"
Artist: Mandy Slate
Album: 101
Listen to First: "Machine"
Rock
Artist: The Courettes
Album: Boom! Dynamite (An Introduction To The Fabulous Courettes)
Listen to First: "Want You! Like A Cigarette"
Artist: Symphony Orchestra (Max Turnbull & Michael Rault)
Album: Radiant Music
Listen to First: "Intersection"
Artist: Victoria Anthony*
Album: New Disaster
Listen to First: "Kinda Into You"
New Music Friday 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.