New Music Friday Release Picks (8/25/23)

Our favorite New Music Friday releases from 8/25/23. Playlist is available at the bottom of the post.

Alternative

Artist: Drab Majesty

Album: An Object in Motion

Listen to First: "The Skin and The Glove"

Artist: Never*

Album: No Guarantee EP

Listen to First: "Hard to Go"

Electronic

Artist: Titi Bakorta

Album: Molende

Listen to First: "Motema"

Emo

Artist: Spanish Love Songs

Album: No Joy

Listen to First: "Haunted"

Folk

Artist: Mipso

Album: Book of Fools

Listen to First: "Carolina Rolling By"

Hip-Hop

Artist: jaboukie

Album: All who can’t hear must feel

Listen to First: "cranberry sauce"

Indie

Artist: Becca Mancari*

Album: Left Hand

Listen to First: "You Don't Scare Me"

Artist: Handsome Ghost

Album: Handsome Ghost

Listen to First: "Birch Trees"

Artist: Harmony

Album: Dystopia Girl EP

Listen to First: "Good Things Take Time"

Artist: Islands

Album: And That’s Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs

Listen to First: "Life's A Joke"

Artist: Lutalo*

Album: AGAIN EP

Listen to First: "PLPH"

Artist: Nightly

Album: wear your heart out

Listen to First: "the feeling"

Artist: Ratboys

Album: The Window

Listen to First: "It's Alive!"

Artist: sophie meiers

Album: spark__space EP

Listen to First: "collar"

Artist: Strawberry Runners

Album: Strawberry Runners

Listen to First: "Look Like This"

Artist: Vallis Alps

Album: Cleave

Listen to First: "Turn It Around"

Artist: Yeek

Album: Future Reference

Listen to First: "ETA2 (ft. Paris Texas)"

Jazz

Artist: Jaimie Branch

Album: Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))

Listen to First: "the mountain"

Pop Punk

Artist: MxPx

Album: Find A Way Home

Listen to First: "Stay Up All Night"

Punk

Artist: Be Your Own Pet

Album: Mommy

Listen to First: "Worship the Whip"

Artist: Who is She?*

Album: Goddess Energy

Listen to First: "Shania"

R&B

Artist: Gareth Donkin

Album: Welcome Home

Listen to First: "Something Different"

Rap

Artist: Laeland

Album: look at the mess we made

Listen to First: "i wish u cheated sooner."

Artist: Raw Poetic

Album: Away Back In

Listen to First: "Rehab"

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.