Primarily working under the name Ricky Eat Acid and leading the indie-punk outfit Teen Suicide, Maryland songwriter Sam Ray mostly put his guitar-pop project Julia Brown on hold following the release of their 2013 cassette To Be Close To You — an endearingly frank collection of songs “recorded at various people’s houses over a long period of time.”

But unbeknownst to the world at large, there was another batch of tracks out there. Even as Ray was making moves to dissolve Julia Brown, he had written a body of work that would soon become the band’s first and final full-length LP, An Abundance of Strawberries.

In an email, Ray called the resulting album, out of the dozens he’s recorded, the only one he’s “written so far in [his] life that [he’s] this proud of.” It felt special, and as such he never officially promoted or distributed the collection, choosing instead to send it to fans who requested it via email in 2014. Eventually, he put released the album on Dropbox to download for free, but it never received a physical release.

Now, he’s retrieving the record from the depths of the internet, and issuing it as an LP on the newly minted Joy Void Recordings on January 15, which is also reissuing To Be Close to You and releasing a new Teen Suicide 7-inch called “Sonic Youth.” In a statement, reproduced in full below, Ray says that the physical release was actually intended from the beginning, but it’s only now, over a year later, that the circumstances have allowed him to put it out in exactly the way he wanted.

In celebration of this new release, Julia Brown are also sharing a video for “Snow Day,” a shimmering track from Strawberries that blends blunted indie-pop melodies with unconventionally warped electronic drums, that border on the Baths and Dntel school of beats-and-vocals singer-songwriter structures. Appropriate to the songs fluttering title, the Linnea Nugent-directed clip is a hazy, abstract thing that pairs fits the song’s amorphous mood. Watch it here alongside Ray’s statement about the decision to officially release the recording, and pre-order An Abundance of Strawberries, due January 15 via Joy Void Recordings.

Ray also shared a statement regarding his decision for the album’s proper release. Read it below.