Name: Polaroid/Roman/Photo
Brand: Ruth

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BORNBAD 152LP

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Colour

Black

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Forced Exposure

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

3521381569186

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

BORNBAD 152CD

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Download code: No

3521383469170

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Ruth

Genre US

Label US

BORN BAD RECORDS (FRANCE)

New Wave / Post Punk

Classic 1985 French new wave holy grail, reissued on LP with a 12 page booklet and digipak CD with 24 page booklet (liner notes in English and French).

Thierry Müller, the French musician, photographer and graphic designer initiated the Ruth project. As early as 1982, a first version of the track "Polaroïd/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 Farfisa 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 worked on other tracks for the future LP and asks some friends to write other lyrics: Edouard Nono, visual artist, writes the lyrics of "Mots", Frédérique 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 "Polaroïd/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.

Polaroid/Roman/Photo

Music US

Buy Ruth - Polaroid/Roman/Photo (Vinyl, CD) now from Rough Trade - independent purveyors of great music, since 1976.