The Inspector Cluzo

Lacrouts and Jourdain met during their first year of physics studies in Mont de Marsan.^[9] After playing in the band Wolfunkind, the two formed a duo.^[4]

Their first EP was recorded in 2008 and produced at Jet Studio in Brussels by Stephane Kraemer.^[8] The same year, they released their first full-length eponymous album, which included two notable songs: "Two Days" and "F*ck the Bass Player". The album was covered in French and International press,^[10] including in Japan,^[5] where they participated in the Fuji Rock Festival.^[11]

In April 2010, they released their second album, The French Bastards. In February 2012, their third, The 2 Mousquetaires, was released inside a comic book as its official jacket. By 2016, they released two more albums: Gasconha Rocks and Rockfarmers and had performed in more than 800 concerts, visited 44 countries, and sold 100,000 albums.^[4]

In 2018, they recorded their seventh album, We the People of the Soil in Nashville with Vance Powell, marking the duo's tenth anniversary.^[12][13]

At the beginning of 2020, the group released a "best-of" unplugged album entitled Brothers In Ideals, recorded during their American tour. In January 2023, their eighth album, entitled Horizon, was released. Both were produced by Vance Powell.^{[13][14][15][16]}

The band is the subject of a book by Romain Lejeune and illustrated by Marc Large.^[17]

The duo runs a 15 hectare organic family farm in Gascony called "Lou Casse" ('the oak' in the Gascon language). The farm, which they bought in 2013, is self-sustaining. On the farm they produce organic wheat and organic corn with their own free seeds, raise gray geese and other plants and animals.^{[9][12][13][16]} While they consider farming their focus, they split their time between the farm and their work as musician-composers, spending six months on each.^[12][9]

The duo work to apply the tenets of agroecology on their farm and teach it to local children^[15] and the greater public, for example by including lectures on the subject as the opening act for their concerts.^[18]

The duo, in music and farming, pursue the goals of being autonomous and independent.^[13][16] They manage their own label F*ckthebassplayer Records,^[4] which, since 2012, has been the distributor of Ter a Terre records in France, also of their own making.^[3] Besides the farm and their music, the duo manages, with family and trusted friends, concert bookings, publicity, recording, sales of their music and farm produce.^[9]

Music magazine Les Inrockuptibles when writing about their album The French Bastards, called their style a fusion between funk rock and heavy metal, noting that the band does not have a bass player.^[19] Writing about the same album Crossbeat noted that the band's style is a fusion, at moments reminiscent of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin.^[5] In 2011, an article about the Art Rock festival described the duo's style as being funk'n'roll, somewhere between the Red Hot Chili Peppers and AC/DC.^[20]

Their live performances are characterized as energetic and lively, accomplishing with just two musicians a large sound that transforms between blues-rock and hard-rock.^[20]

The duo sings in English.^[3]

• (2008) Cluzo, EP, (Ter a Terre)
• (2008) The Inspector Cluzo, CD, (Ter A Terre)
• (2010) The French Bastards, CD, (Ter A Terre)
• (2012) The 2 Mousquetaires, CD, (Ter A Terre/FucktheBassPlayer Records)
• (2013) Gasconha Rocks, CD, (FucktheBassPlayer Records)
• (2016) Rockfarmers, CD, (FucktheBassPlayer Records)
• (2018) We the people of the soil, CD, (FucktheBassPlayer Records)
• (2020) Brothers in Ideal - We the People of the Soil, Unplugged (Universal Music Division, Virgin Records Distribution Deal)
• (2023) Horizon, CD, (FucktheBassPlayer Records)

• https://www.theinspectorcluzo.com
• Discogs
• Biographical references: VIAF | ISNI | BnF