Chevreuil have been building sonic architecture since 1998, and their return is anything but quiet. The French rock duo of Julien F. and Tony C., who met at art school in 1995 and have treated the concept of a band as a performative installation ever since, unveil “Ordrus” today, the third single from their forthcoming comeback double album ‘Stadium,’ arriving April 24 through Computer Students.
“Ordrus” opens with martial, deep drumming before fracturing into layered guitar textures that feel simultaneously disorienting and inevitable. It functions as both standalone interlude and connective tissue, a compressed, haiku-like moment that captures the larger motion of ‘Stadium’ in miniature. The track is a precise entry point into what the full record promises: a listening experience that operates more like an environment than a sequence of songs.
Chevreuil’s approach has always been structural. Tony’s guitar runs through four amplifiers arranged in a quadraphonic field around Julien’s unamplified 1976 Ludwig kit, the same year both musicians were born. No bassist, no fixed venue requirements, just one outlet and the physics of sound moving through space. ‘Stadium’ preserves those core conditions while expanding the conceptual frame, drawing on the music of the spheres, magnetism, radioactivity, barometric oscillations, astrometry, and magic as lenses for vibration and transformation.
The double LP is organized into two four-piece sequences per side, structured to function as parallel albums or a single continuum. Every variation across the sixteen tracks arises purely from performance, with identical recording settings maintained from tracking through mastering. The physical release arrives as a 180-gram, 33rpm double 12″ in a reverse-board gatefold. A deluxe edition adds a 12-page codex documenting the band’s full recording configuration, housed in Computer Students’ sealed aluminum sleeve. A limited colored-vinyl edition is available exclusively through the Computer Students website. CD, cassette, and digital formats are also available.
‘Stadium’ Tracklist:
Alliage
Tartarus
Aria
Ordrus
Plexus
Theorus Macrocosmus
Mortalis
Hypnosis
Magnus
Corpus
Quantum
Sanctus
Profundis
Cerberus
Opus
Atoll II