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"Bare
knuckled black comedy - diabolically sharp and intricate left wing
zingers." -Rupert Bottenberg, Montreal Mirror, 2007.
The Consumer Goods are a wickedly sharp absurdist political indie
pop band from Winnipeg, MB. They play crunchy pop songs with a hint
of alt-country and death-folk, and they sing fun songs about oppression,
imperialism and resistance. They are fun, clever, low-maintenance
geeks who won't trash their dressing room and will show everyone
a good time. The songs are heavily political, and those politics
are usually expressed on the surface in an absurd and funny but,
ultimately, jarring way. Beneath that surface, the songs convey
a surprisingly personal and poignant sense of doubt, frustration
and contradiction around how to confront the social injustice that
pervades contemporary liberal capitalism. They travel either as
a two-piece acoustic act or a five-piece pop band, and never cease
to endear audiences with their bizarre and self-deprecatory stage
banter. They are teachers, academics, actvists and mentorship-center-lackeys
and audiences across the country have responded to their down-to-earth
attitude and endless stream of uncomfortable body humour.
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