Their eponymous debut album (2007) featured minimalist music played by Xavier on the grand organ, harmoniums, and piano, accompanied by Ruth's stark spoken-word chanting. Their second album, the denser and more political *Red Sugar* (2011), was critically acclaimed.
Winter Family then composed soundtracks for dance, film, and advertising, collaborating with numerous artists. They became associate artists at Le 104 in Paris. After touring their documentary theater piece *Jerusalem Plomb Durci*—a hallucinatory journey through an emotional dictatorship—they settled in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Returning to Paris in 2014 to perform their new nihilistic documentary theater piece, *No World / FPLL*, they began mixing *South From Here* in a Jaurès basement, drawing inspiration from Pierre Carré's orchestra sound and the reverbs of the carnival performers at the Foire du Trône. In *South From Here*, Ruth plays machines, drums, drum machine, and sings. Xavier plays old organs, synth, celesta, and piano.
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