‘I choose where I live, I choose when I die, When I pay my interest, Everything is mine, My office is big and my wallet is fat, Tell my wife I don’t want to chat’ (Opportunity Cost)

Hailing from Cincinnati, 20X Multiplier is Choncy’s debut vinyl release following on from last year’s cassette-only Community Chest.  Taut, angular guitars are underpinned by a relentlessly precise rhythm section, as the band animate a thoroughly abrasive yet undeniably infectious blend of bristling hardcore propelled post-punk.  Writhing solos and occasional electronic flare-ups fashion an air of juddering, jolting unease.

Semi-shouted, rhythmically repetitive vocals further intensify this anxious, off-kilter energy.  Themes of economic exploitation, modern day workplace culture, the financialisation of healthcare, and the wider neoliberal hollowing out of society are sardonically skewered on tracks such as the fiercely serpentine Opportunity Cost, the surging Dead Meat, and the frenzied, organ fuelled Default.