Perplex, by Julie Ragbeer

Perplex

by Julie Ragbeer

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Cassette + Digital Album
Julie Ragbeer's debut album Perplex available physically for the first time ever as an expanded Deluxe edition collectible cassette. Features two bonus tracks including the heretofore unreleased demo version of Fight Against Your Fleshy Lusts.

Includes unlimited streaming of Perplex via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Nothing 02:36	buy track
2.	Mary Whiton Calkins 02:56	buy track
3.	Sought 02:24	buy track
4.	Be My Adam 02:17	buy track
5.	Fight Against Your Fleshy Lusts 02:12	buy track
6.	Older Guys 03:32	buy track
7.	The Devil Is In Your Heart 04:02	buy track
8.	See Stars 02:46	buy track
9.	Consequence of a Pharisee 02:23	buy track
10.	I never knew I'd be such a fool for you 03:15	buy track
11.	Rejected 03:04	buy track
12.	Fight Against Your Fleshy Lusts (Demo) 02:12	buy track

about

Julie Ragbeer, a graduate of <1,000 U, is a trailblazer. One month ago, after languishing online unheard for 4 long years, she decided she’d had enough. Julie loaded herself into the bucket of the meme machine catapult, unsheathed her blade and bravely severed the restraining rope. Sent a-flyin by a paid @PopTingz post, up-and-over the moat she flew, handily clearing the gatekeepers and algorithm trolls, into the ever-churning cauldron of Queer Twitter, stewing juices with Glasgow’s Willy Wonka debacle and The Missing Princess. She became an Icon overnight — representing a triumph of relatability, honesty, and soul. Today, ULYSSA presents an exclusive extended cassette version of her debut album Perplex, featuring a demo of “Fight Against Your Fleshy Lusts” and bonus single “Rejected.”

Perplex is the underdog hero’s journey of Q1 2024. And a walking 9.0 if we ever heard one. Sophisticated, charming, homemade and confident. Bedroom pop that drags its neon peach press-ons across the icing of Sade and Gary Wilson’s Toejazz wedding cake. Euphoric ballads about love in the gulf between God and Science. A sultry synth-shuffle through the Garden of Eden. Anthemic bops about the libido and a desire for a Mature Adult Relationship. A post-irony response to Clairo’s Flaming Hot Cheetos. A slowgrind R&B tribute to experimental philosopher/psychologist (and hero of Freud!) Mary Whiton Calkins. It’s a turnaround jumpshot. It’s everybody’s jumpstart. It’s every generation throws a hero up the pop charts. Yes friends, these are the days of miracle and wonder. Beyond all simple pleasures and on to the perplex. Join us, dearest Ragdolls, as we give it up for The Lionheart of Jersey City, our queen/mother Julie Ragbeer.

Here at ULYSSA, we’ve celebrated many an outsider, and though we’ve landed a flaming arrow or two, smack dab between the editorial eyes, we’ve never seen one of our champions championed quite like this, though doubtless they all deserve it. Julie has us wondering if we shouldn’t rustle up an ad spend of our own from time to time. If The Audience is indeed ready to *do* *the* *work* and appreciate the music of the margins’ margins, then why not?

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released March 22, 2024

Produced by Sebastian Askelberg

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