Je Suis France

Among the many rings dangling on the fringe from the Athens indie rock and roll picture, eclectic in-jokesters Je Suis France stability a wholesome penchant for garage area rock and roll and craggy instrumental epics harkening back again to the early times of Created to Spill with an adventurous Camper Truck Beethoven anything-goes-aesthetic (that is appropriate since they released their initial record on David Lowery’s Pitch-a-Tent label). Even though their music group persona — with associates having brands like Darkness and Iceberg, their philosophizing about Eastern bloc politics, and their baffling record liner records and cover artwork appear to hint on the most severe of art rock and roll eccentricity — they’re ultimately a reasonably down-to-earth indie rock-band. Forming whilst in a Marietta, GA, senior high school around primary associates DJ and Darkness, the Je Suis France lineup was solidified once the several members discovered themselves enrolled on the School of Athens and functioning at the faculty radio station. Using the enhancements of Chris Rogers on electric guitar and Iceberg on bass, the music group experienced a litany of brands and instrumental alignments before exchanging the Experts from the Hemisphere’s Sean Rawls for his bandmate Jeff Griggs as drummer, hence finalizing their lineup. As their popularity grew within the congested Athens picture, both because of their artful songwriting and their periodic performance of music in phonetically reversed lyrics, they discovered a home because of their self-titled debut in 2000, which garnered extremely favorable reviews because of their mixture of curvy instrumentals and ragged anthems. The likewise impressive Ice Age group implemented in 2002.