There are a couple of similarities between Ruby and Garbage. Both are headed by Scottish female vocalists with US backing and production. Both released their debut albums in 1995. Both pushed genre boundaries: Garbage with their lush, heavy sound and Ruby with their esoteric mixture of electronic, trip-hop, industrial and even jazz.1 The inability to comfortably box Ruby into a single genre might be part of the reason that they have remained less popular. Ruby consists of vocalist Lesley Rankine and producer Mark Walk. Unlike Garbage, aside from the vocals, Ruby's music is entirely synthetic, made of samples and loops. It is Rankine's voice that anchors the potential chaos.
Their first album, Salt Peter reaped their biggest US release, "Tiny Meat":
While the duo began work on a second album in 1996, very poor luck with music labels postponed it's release to 2001. Short Staffed at the Gene Pool is a slightly more mellow effort relying more on the down-tempo dance and jazz qualities of the first album. Both albums, as well as two remix efforts for Short Staffed, are available from Amazon.com. Short Staffed is also available on CD.
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(band)
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