CONSUMABLES w/ POLKAROBICS @ Radio Bean

21+
$12 adv | $15 dos
7:30pm doors | 8pm show

CONSUMABLES (Insta | Bandcamp | Spotify)

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, from exploring tensions between technology, selfhood, and authenticity on the post-punk standout “Great Design” to the drama of keeping a romantic relationship alive on the slacker-tinged “Ten Toes Down.”

The album culminates in the hazy eponymous cut, “Infinite Games,” where the band takes flight with a euphoric singalong crescendo that evokes the peak of a psychedelic experience: “I feel limitless / this is what freedom is.” This musical openness expresses the boundless feeling of a relationship viewed through an infinite mindset.

There is an immediacy attached to Crew’s question of the purpose of it all: “What kind of creature am I? I’ve got to figure it out.”

This is an album about enlightenment at a time when the clock is ticking.

Infinite Games is out March 7, 2025 via We Are Time (North America) and Fierce Panda (UK/EU). The album was produced and co-written by Ben Hozie of BODEGA, engineered and mixed by Adam Sachs, and mastered by Mikey Young.

POLKAROBICS (Insta)

In POLKAROBICS, risk of serious physical injury is possible as the combination of polka and aerobics is poorly understood and possibly lethal.

POLKAROBICS is no
substitute for medical diagnosis and/or treatment, but you can’t be too sure.

The student assumes the risk of POLKAROBICS and releases TUB TIME! from any liability claims.