The Egocentrics are a Romanian instrumental psychedelic rock band, who released their best album ''Love Fear Choices and Astronauts'' back in 2010. The Egocentrics appeared essentially from nowhere, same as other great Eastern European psychedelic jam bands like Atomic Simao. This album from The Egocentrics is pretty much pure psychedelic rock and stoner greatness, reminding bands like Colour Haze, but also bands like Church of Misery in parts. Then again in parts reminding some outright psychedelic jam bands as well.
The album starts off with a track titled ''Spacewolf'' and it packs some fine psychedelic rock jamming in the vein of bands like Colour Haze. This means that it starts off in a mellow psych key and ascends to some fine stoner riffage. The same can roughly be said about the second track titled ''20 12'', although this track ventures in some more varied jamming throughout its rather long duration. The best track on the album is however ''Bright Dawn Of The Soul'', which packs some awesome stoner riffage in the vein of Colour Haze, and even surpasses the German greats in its fine heavy riffage. An amazing transcendental heavy psychedelic stoner track. The album finishes with a track titled ''Mystic Initiation''. This track is filled with awesome heavy stoner riffage and psychedelic stoner rock jamming in a somewhat bluesy key in parts.
All in all ''Love Fear Choices and Astronauts'' is one of the best instrumental psychedelic rock albums of the last decade, and definitely worth checking out. Anyone who loves Colour Haze will surely dig these Romanians as well.
Some related links:
Bandcamp: https://egocentrics.bandcamp.com/album/love-fear-choices-and-astronauts
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Egocentrics-Love-Fear-Choices-And-Astronauts/master/331597
