One of the many bands hanging on the fringe of the Athens indie rock scene, eclectic in-jokesters Je Suis France balance a healthy penchant for garage rock and craggy instrumental epics harkening back to the early days of Built to Spill with an adventurous Camper Van Beethoven anything-goes-aesthetic (which is appropriate seeing that they released their first album on David Lowery's Pitch-a-Tent label). And while their band persona -- with members having names like Darkness and Iceberg, their philosophizing about Eastern bloc politics, and their baffling album liner notes and ...