We’ll be honest, this one took us by complete surprise – there we were, filling out our schedule for the next month, when all of the sudden, or old friend Julien Fernandez appears in our email. Julien was our introduction to Computer Students, a cutting edge label out of New York that you probably recognize thanks to a number of high-profile releases from Cheval de Frise, Big’n, Lynx, and recently the explosive collaboration between Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo.
But today we have the privilege of helping announce a day we thought would never happen, being the return of Julien’s band Chevreuil. Full disclosure, before we ever wrote a thing for Fecking Bahamas, we found out about them the French duo through the website’s infamous list of 100 Great Math Rock Albums You’ve Never Heard, and they stuck in the back of our minds ever since.
We always wondered what happened to them, and after we got to know Julien through PR and found out he was in the band, we thought it would be too weird to ask. Thankfully, we don’t have to wonder anymore, as Chevreuil has announced not just a return, but a double-album to go with it entitled Stadium. Get your first taste with “Tartarus” below:
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The new single takes us right back to that feeling of hearing the band for the first time. These days, it’s not unusual for math rock duo’s to combine loops with drums in discordant, fractured manners, but they rarely have the vision of Chevreuil. Chevreuil’s ability to artfully stack loops with drum parts that synchronize, dissolve, and glue themselves back together has always set them apart from the pack, and in 2026, we’re so excited to hear more of it.
“Tartarus” almost feels like some of our favorite electronic and ambient music, but made with the mindset of math rock, which is a winning combo to say the least. Also, it’s worth notating that Stadium isn’t just a return for the band, it’s progress – if you read the release below, you’ll find that as a double album, it’s not just two LP’s you play in order… it’s two LP’s you play at the same time.
The future is now, people. Here’s the official press release via Computer Students:
French rock duo Chevreuil announces its return with Stadium, a double album set for release on April 24, 2026 via Computer Students™, marking the end of a twenty-year hiatus. The announcement is accompanied by the release of the first single, “Tartarus,” along with a video created by Dutch artist and designer Bas Mantel.
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.
With Stadium, recorded in January 2025, the duo retains 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.
The stop-motion video, composed of black-and-white images reworked from archival materials, analog and digital collages, created using a photocopier, a fax machine, and a computer, extends this exploration. It stages a magnetic, cosmic universe that closely interacts with the track’s sonic structure.
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.
Pre-order Stadium here.
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