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. Their sound construction, layered through loopers and analog devices, operates like an assemblage of  interlocking blocks of energy, each part locking precisely into the next.

Between 1998 and 2006, Chevreuil released four albums, an EP, and several singles. Their recorded legacy includes Sport (2000), Ghetto Blaster (2001), Châteauvallon (2003), Science (EP, 2006), and Capoëira (2006). The last three were recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago. Issued on RuminanCe (Paris, France), Sickroom Records (Chicago, USA), and StiffSlack (Nagoya, Japan), these releases placed Chevreuil within a transatlantic network of artists who explore form and texture rather than genre convention.

After a 20-year hiatus, Chevreuil returns with the double album Stadium, recorded in France in January 2025 and slated for release on April 24, 2026. The project began as a plan to reissue their early work through Computer Students™, but quickly evolved into a new entity. Having not played together for 15 years, the duo spent a week together testing whether their long-dormant chemistry could still function. By day they recorded; by night they cooked for each other, rekindling the ease and discipline that defined their partnership.

Stadium, Chevreuil’s most esoteric album to date, preserves the essential conditions of their earlier work — live recording, unamplified drums, and four-amp immersion — while introducing new elements that expand the duo’s sonic vocabulary. Central to this evolution is a reconfigured guitar, functioning as a hybrid electro-acoustic engine capable of generating electronic timbres without compromising the project’s self-contained design.

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.

For reference, archival purposes and to provide full technical transparency, the Deluxe and Limited editions feature a 12-page codex documenting the band’s complete recording configuration, including all parameter settings and specifications.

Notes —— Please read carefully before placing your preorder.

Stadium is offered in the following forms:

— Limited Edition: Dark green 2LP 180g HQ — Audiophile quality pressing, running at 33rpm, inside a reverse-board 6mm spine gatefold cover housed in tactile Type-1 aluminum packaging [Dark green print] alongside a 12-page codex documenting the band’s complete recording configuration.

— Deluxe Edition: Black 2LP 180g HQ — Audiophile quality pressing, running at 33rpm, inside a reverse-board 6mm spine gatefold cover housed in tactile Type-2 aluminum packaging [Black Print] alongside a 12-page codex documenting the band’s complete recording configuration.

— Standard Edition: 2LP 180g HQ — Audiophile quality pressing, running at 33rpm, inside a reverse-board 6mm spine gatefold cover with vinyl colored variants in black or dark green.

— Sleevepac CD, reverse-board cover with accordion 8-panel booklet.

— Cassette tape with 4 panel J-card cover, grey shell and clear liberty case.

— MP3 (320kbps) and Lossless M4A digital files for download.

Standard

2LP — Compact Disc — Cassette — M4A — MP3

Standard — 3700604774266
Deluxe — 3700604774273
Limited — 0
Dark Green — 3700604781066
CD — 3700604774259
Cassette — 3700604774280

April 24, 2026

Alliage
Tartarus
Aria
Ordrus

Plexus
Theorus Macrocosmus
Mortalis
Hypnosis

Profundis
Cerberus
Opus
Atoll II

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