Chevreuil announce new album

French rock duo Chevreuil have announced their return with Stadium, a double album set for release on April 24 via Computer Students™.

Marking the end of a twenty-year hiatus, the announcement is accompanied by the release of the band’s first single, Tartarus, along with a video created by Dutch artist and designer Bas Mantel, which you can watch / listen to below.

Chevreuil is the French rock duo of Julien F. and Tony C., formed in 1998 after the two met three years earlier at an art school. From the beginning, they approached the idea of a band as a performative art installation — a self-contained, sculptural device for sound, space, and motion rather than a conventional rock ensemble. Julien and Tony, respectively, in their parlance, play “magnetic drums” and “magnetic guitar,” an analogy for their livewire, one-on-one chemistry, where the music seems to fall together by way of natural forces.

Rejecting the addition of a bassist early on, Chevreuil built its music around reduction, repetition, and architecture. Tony’s guitar runs through four amplifiers arranged around Julien’s drum kit, creating a quadraphonic field that surrounds the players. Julien’s 1976 Ludwig kit — built the same year both musicians were born — is never amplified, allowing the group to perform anywhere so long as there’s a single outlet for the amplifiers. The result is both physical and spatial — a minimalist engine of rhythm and resonance that behaves as much like an installation as a band.

Recorded in January 2025, Stadium sees the band retaining its core principles (live recording, quadraphonic immersion) while expanding its sonic palette through a reconfigured guitar — a true hybrid electro-acoustic engine generating electronic textures. The single Tartarus exemplifies this evolution with a distinctive structure in which electro-acoustic textures intertwine subtly and progressively around a minimalist and powerful drum performance.

Conceptually, the album draws on the music of the spheres, magnetism, radioactivity, barometric oscillations, astrometry, and magic, using these ideas as lenses for exploring vibration and transformation. Each side of the double LP contains four pieces, forming parallel sequences that can be heard as two separate albums or a single continuum.