Thierry Mller, the French musician, photographer and graphic designer initiated the Ruth project. As early as 1982, a first version of the track \”Polarod/Roman/Photo\” emerged. \”I wanted to write a piece to make the girls dance and make fun of the boys. I plugged a small handmade clock on my Farfsa organ as a sequencer. I had a small Roland synth-guitar, I put the organ in it and that\’s how it started. Philippe Doray, a big name of French experimental music, is amused by the idea of working on a more pop project and offers to write the lyrics. Thierry works on other tracks for the future LP and asks some friends to write other lyrics: Edouard Nono, visual artist, writes the lyrics of \”Mots\”, Frdrique Lapierre those of \”Misty Mouse\” and \”Tu m\’ennuies\”. The album was finally released in 1985 on Paris Album, a small independent label but barely sells 50 copies. In 2004, two DJs Marc Colin and Ivan Smagghe discover the track \”Polarod/ Roman/ Photo\” and decide to exhume it from oblivion. They release it on a compilation called \’So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977 1983\’ (Tigersushi) and then Born Bad Records includes it on the \’BIPPP – French Synth- Wave 1979/85\’ compilation in 2008. Thanks to them, the track and the album start a new life, which sees several limited edition (and now highly expensive) represses coming out between 2010 and 2015.