Consumables playing “Infinite Games” with infinite rules

New York-based post-punk quartet Consumables is releasing their debut album, Infinite Games, on March 7th, 2025. The album has a quintessential new-york-sound the likes of which you can still hear banging around the walls of bar back ballrooms and stages. The lineup for the long play features Kyle Crew on guitar and vocals, Miles Fox on Bass, Synth and Vocals, Hector Guillen on drums, Dylan Joyce on guitar and BODEGA’s very own Ben Hozie on production. The album is a strong showing of songwriting and instrumentation. The punky core of the music washed with new-wave guitars and snappy synths layers perfectly to the staccato back and forth of the two vocalists. It is the hardest kind of music you can get without it needing to be substantially loud.

Prior to the album dropping, the band released two singles: “Great Design” and the titular and potential ‘it’ track of the album “Infinite Games”. The latter faces a fork in the road as the album’s most traditionally constructed song it will find the ears of scene-goers and casuals alike. “Infinite Games” is a strong song featuring a driving rhythm section, great guitar riffs, and a singable chorus that calls out in delectably liberating tones “I feel limitless/this is what freedom is.” This is a single destined for playtime and it is yet to be seen if the song will stay popular in the hearts and minds of those on the inside of the gates or if its possible success and repetition will force its abandonment like Parquet Courts with “Tenderness”.

The lyrics of the album are full of feeling communicated in stark blunt terms and still images of crowded places packed in chaos. The album, through its tracklist vignettes, strives to point out the games we play every day in our lives and how we confine ourselves to the rules of those games without thought. What it offers to us instead, is to embrace the inflate games in our lives. The ones that don’t have rules that constrain us but rather have rules that allow us to do anything, or no rules at all.

This is a theme that extends past the lyrics and into the music itself. The band chooses to define its music in a way that lets it bend and shape convention to their desire without forcing themselves into a pigeonhole. They take their first step by saying we can do whatever we want, and it seems that is what they intend to do. Catch them playing around New York and keep your eyes peeled for a tour announcement.

Cover image by Gannon Padgett

Upcoming Consumables live shows

New Colossus Festival, New York, USA

March 7: Arlenes Grocery (Bandsdobk Showcase), 10 pm

SXSW Festival, Austin, Texas, USA

March 11: Lazarus Brewery (Music For Listeners Showcase), 6 pm
March 11: Sahara Lounge (Texas Prison Education Initiative), 10 pm
March 12: Valhalla, 4 pm
March 13: ABGB (New York Takeover Showcase), 9:15 pm
March 14: Seven Grand (Fierce Panda / SO Recordings Showcase), 1:15 am
March 15: Side Bar (Stuporfriends), 12:15 pm-6:30 pm
April 11: Chemistry Creative, New York (Headline Show)