All of chinoamobi’s music is personal, but in Eroica he delivers something resembling a self-portrait, or more accurately a self-dissemination. Opening track “Aztlan” begins with Ennio Morricone guitar, “New Slaves” drums, and an assortment of chanting sourced from around the world. Amobi’s preoccupation with the cinematic is on full display until the music melts away and Amobi appears as an echo over the track. His words appear entirely improvised — “I am the one whom they call life, and you call death, it’s gotta be strife,” he says at one point, sounding like the burning bush lost its train of thought while addressing Moses — helping to tie together the music’s more sketched-out elements with its painstaking composition. Though spiritual references pop up frequently in Amobi’s lyrics, they often veer into gibberish and non sequiters; Eroica encourages us to search more deeply for narrative within its sonic connections. “And does Amobi ever make it easy for us: the scope of Eroica’...