New Music Friday Release Picks (6/23/23 & 7/7/23)

Our favorite New Music Friday releases from 6/23/23 and 7/7/23. Playlist is available at the bottom of the post.

Alternative

Artist: Body of Light

Album: Bitter Reflection

Listen to First: "Bitter Reflection"

Artist: CIEL

Album: Make It Better EP

Listen to First: "So Scared"

Artist: Suzie True

Album: Sentimental Scum

Listen to First: "Keep in Touch"

Country

Artist: Miles Miller

Album: Solid Gold

Listen to First: "Solid Gold"

Artist: The Pink Stones

Album: You Know Who

Listen to First: "Who's Laughing Now?"

Electronic

Artist: Fit of Body

Album: Far From the Rhythm

Listen to First: "Cherry Pinup"

Artist: Laurence Guy

Album: Living Like There’s No Tomorrow, But Killing Yourself In The Process

Listen to First: "I Hate Futuristuc Metropolises"

Experimental

Artist: Lauren Bousfield

Album: Salesforce

Listen to First: "Narrow Down Concepts Force Meaning"

Folk

Artist: Julie Byrne

Album: The Greater Wings

Listen to First: "Summer Glass"

Hip-Hop

Artist: Father

Album: HU$BAND 2 EP

Listen to First: "Oxenfree"

Indie

Artist: 12 Rods

Album: If We Stayed Alive

Listen to First: "My Year (This Is Going To Be)"

Artist: Amaara

Album: Child of Venus

Listen to First: "New Love's Mortal Coil"

Artist: ANOHNI and Antony and the Johnsons*

Album: My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

Listen to First: "There Wasn't Enough"

Artist: Grian Chatten (of Fontaines D.C.)

Album: Chaos for the Fly

Listen to First: "Fairlies"

Artist: Niki & The Dove and The Greys

Album: This Is the Music EP

Listen to First: "Point of View"

Artist: Tiberius b*

Album: DIN EP

Listen to First: "Twofer"

Artist: tofusmell*

Album: Humor

Listen to First: "Basil Noodles"

Jazz

Artist: Tony Allen

Album: Tony Allen JID018

Listen to First: "Makoko"

Pop Punk

Artist: Throw the Fight

Album: Strangeworld

Listen to First: "Lost Without You"

Punk

Artist: Longings

Album: Dreams In Red

Listen to First: "Can't Look Back"

Artist: Sad Park

Album: No More Sound

Listen to First: "OMW!"

Rock

Artist: The Far Outs

Album: The Far Outs

Listen to First: "Bad News For You"

Artist: Pigeon Wigs*

Album: Rock By Numbers

Listen to First: "Death Of A King"

Artist: Treeboy & Arc

Album: Natural Habitat

Listen to First: "Retirement"

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.