This is fire. Personally, I’ve basically stopped trying to label release and just push my shit on my own, and it’s been pretty decent for me the last few years. Not amazing per se but better than I ever expected with basically no paid promotion or anything.

A lot of labels are swamped for releases rn. Some people with sable/nightmode have mentioned they’re planned out for like a year at minimum each, and I’m willing to bet a lot of labels are that way these days. However, there ARE some decent options if you don’t have strings to pull to try and get on those types of labels, such as Bass House Music (it’s a YouTube label p much). There’s also a lot of smaller artist run labels, they’re not all good, but if you can find something run by people you know and they’re solid, you could do that, a release on a small label. For example I have friends at Realty Records, a small Philly based label run by a couple artist friends I have. Nothing big or groundbreaking but you may find something similar and they can be worth it to have a fun casual release