Chino Amobi – Eroica II: Christian Nihilism
Out Now!
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/eroica-ii-christian-nihilism

“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” — Vladimir Nabokov

A spiritual reckoning rendered in sound, Eroica II: Christian Nihilism is Chino Amobi’s long-awaited second full-length, a work born from the dissonance of Houston’s surreal underbelly and the artist’s global, restless movement. Blurring post-rap, spectral trap and sacred minimalism, the album confronts both the nihilism of the world and the inner void — searching for revelation in the ruins. A Gesamtkunstwerk of sound and philosophy, it wrestles with despair only to reveal a fragile, transcendent hope.

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Written, performed, and produced by Chino Amobi
Produced by Brodinski on tracks “The Eroica Mystery School,” “777,” “Gallerina,” “Close Enemies” (Bonus Digital), “You Want It Darker” (Bonus Digital)
Featuring The Eternal on track “Glory to the Highest”
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin
Artwork photography by Tim Saccenti, licensed for use © 2025. All rights reserved.
Photography in collaboration with Dina Chang for Setta Studio
Design by Giovanni Murolo

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Eroica II: Christian Nihilism

Chino Amobi - The Triumph of the Cross

Arriving just days before the release of Eroica II: Christian Nihilism (out October 31), “I Wouldn’t Be Alive Without You” closes the trilogy of singles leading into Chino Amobi’s long-awaited second album. The track channels the record’s central tension between ruin and revelation. Accompanied by a new video directed by Chino Amobi and Evan Angelique Coleman.

https://youtu.be/9IN6i-TQgYY?si=ABYXRyWxD_xA57Uq
 
Now available for pre-order. Out October 31, 2025.
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/eroica-ii-christian-nihilism

Without escapism, a confrontation with one's own mirror. 
Where Two become Three, and three become One.
To be in the world of culture, but not of the world of culture, requires a great act of magnanimity, courage, and conviction. 
This single and its respective video is a renunciation, in the nihilist sense, 
of Baal materialism and idolic desire for external validation, 
while simultaneously grounding oneself at the center of the storm and chaos, just as Christ did and continues to do.
Loving yourself and loving others.
True identity and freedom comes to revelation and fulfillment within the deserted and impoverished ruins of one's own soul. 
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than
for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God - Matthew 19:24

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Chino Amobi’s forthcoming album, Eroica II: Christian Nihilism (out 31 October via Drowned By Locals), takes its title from what he calls “the idea that while joy and contentment in God might be ideal, they might never be experienced on this side of eternity.” The record inhabits that paradox through folky drones, glacial ambient, spectral trap, and the hushed echoes of sacred traditions. If Paradiso was a burning world in flux, Eroica II is its haunted aftermath.

Born in Alabama to Nigerian parents and raised in Virginia, Amobi is a musician, painter, and writer whose work has been shown internationally, including at MoMA PS1, ICA London, and Palais de Tokyo. He co-founded the influential collective NON Worldwide and is represented by Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York, Robby Fitzpatrick Gallery in Paris, and Von Ammon Co. in Washington, D.C.

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300-copy edition with printed inner sleeve (lyrics on one side) 
Cover art photography by Tim Saccenti ©, designed by Giovanni Murolo 
Produced and performed by Chino Amobi, with select tracks produced by Brodinski 
Mastered by Rashad Becker

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Holiday resort entertainer Tooper Keps takes a break from entertaining the professional leisure class, and reflects their own world back at them with an EP of otherworldly synths and eerie carnivalesque chansons.

Tooper Keps has fired up his trusty Yamaha PSR-11 and PSS-360 to write his first (and probably last) EP, condensing his favourite chord changes from years of distracting the retired and affluent. The result is a collection of floating song structures that revolve like fairground waltzes, punctuated by modulated effects, cowbells and Tooper’s own bitter tenor. Tapping into his inner goblin, he tackles themes such as property (as theft), Drexler’s gray goo problem, and the ‘merits’ of complaining about a system while also benefiting from it - a typical parasite’s paradox.

“1000 Guest Rooms” finds itself on location in luxury homes, cruise ships and holiday resorts, soaked in Tooper’s own self-loathing while casting a critical eye over the state of the world. While we hurtle towards a future that no one wants, “1000 Guest Rooms” is perhaps the best soundtrack we could hope for.

All songs written, produced, recorded and edited by Tooper Keps between Dec. 2024 and Feb. 2025 at TRii Musics.
Made primarily with Yamaha PSR-11, Yamaha PSS-360 and voice. Special thanks to ZOVV for customized cowbell.

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Artwork by Tooper Keps
Text by Fizzy Veins
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'Flowers', the new EP from Elizabeth Davis, finds itself at the cross-section of many factors. In part, it’s the result of Davis’ obsession with a seminal folk song. But it also coincides with her rediscovery of the voice and language as an instrument. It was recorded during an autumn residency at Sternhagen Gut, the cultural refuge run by Gudrun Gut and Thomas Fehlmann, located deep in the Uckermark countryside halfway between Berlin and the Baltic coast.

The six tracks on 'Flowers' all take Pete Seeger’s ‘60s protest-folk song 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone' as their starting point. However, they veer off in different directions, from vocal loops and deconstructed lyrics, to instrumental drones and glitchy, manipulated rhythm tracks. Like many musicians, Davis has learnt composition by a process of disassembly, analyzing musical works piece by piece, and 'Flowers' began as one such forensic exercise. “But sometimes,” says Davis, “a source is so loaded up on meaning that the studies and experiments can become worthwhile and meaningful works in their own right.” 'Flowers' began to take on a life of its own, raising renewed questions about age-old themes such as war, authorship, translation and historical structures.

Davis is no stranger to cover versions. From studying violin to playing in free jazz and punk bands, interpreting other artists’ works has long been a key part of her musical approach. And since her radio show 'Deep Puddle' recently drew to a close after seven years, her experiments with narration and sound collage have found their way into her musical work once again. For 'Flowers', she cut up the source material (with a nod to Gysin and Burroughs), and reassembled the lyrics, the musical notes, and recordings by different performers, to create uncanny new forms.

But perhaps the biggest influence on 'Flowers' was conversations about music, art and pop subcultures with Gut. These dialogues helped Davis find a balance between far-out sound design experiments and catchy melodies, combining a certain avant-garde element and modern day songcraft. And it’s this sense of conversation, this revisiting of topics and renewal of ideas, that will keep us coming back to 'Flowers' long into the future. 

- Fizzy Veins

All music written, recorded and produced by Elizabeth Davis in Sternhagen, Rotterdam and Berlin, between 2024 and 2025

Mastered by The Cologne Wizard
Artwork by Kelsey Isaacs
Layout by Dominique Saiegh
Text by Fizzy Veins

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