How to Release Music Without a Fan Base

I think like everyone has their different, has like a different sense of what sounds good to me. Like there's no universal like aesthetic good. Sometimes I try and just like sculpt the rest of the shit around it to to contextualize it in a way that I think is good. All right, next question. What would you recommend for an artist to start releasing music without a fan base? And let's answer that one first. "Put your shit on SoundCloud, put it on DistroKid, become a part of some Discord servers and post around"