Consumables

***Consumables are a fierce NYC-based art punk quartet with a defiant philosophical edge. Their debut album, Infinite Games, co-written and produced by Bodega’s Ben Hozie, cuts to the heart of contemporary alienation by grappling with the desperate quest for control in a world drowning in chaos and unpredictability. The band is made up of Kyle Crew (vocals, guitar), Miles Fox (vocals, bass, synth), Hector Guillen (drums), and Dylan Joyce (guitar). Consumables have made a name for themselves with their explosive live performances around NYC. Guitarist Kyle Crew is tall, confident, and observant, like a watchtower atop a stage where everyone and everything is moving. This commanding presence translates to the album’s rollicking opening track, “Keys to the Cell,” a reflection on Crew’s six month incarceration in an Arkansas jail on pot charges. The track kicks off the album on a raw and optimistic note, revelling in possibilities and new horizons. It lays down the aesthetic gauntlet for what’s to come: “screaming sirens came and went / everything’s a game of chance.” The band’s debut album is conceptually inspired by the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, which explores the difference between the two concepts. Finite games have boundaries, rules, and clear winners and losers. Infinite games have no winner; the only goal is to continue the play. “So much unnecessary suffering happens when a person plays a finite game in an infinite game scenario,” explains Crew. This theme surfaces often throughout the album’s twelve tracks. A split release with Fierce Panda Records.