Shares ‘80s Game Show-Inspired Video for 
“Selkie Bride”

Album Release Party Tonight at The Ripple Room + Rough Trade In-Store on September 4

August 22, 2025: Today, Yeasayer co-founder Anand Wilder releases his new album Psychic Lessons via Last Gang / MNRK. It finds him harkening back to the experimental psych-pop he was making with the critically-acclaimed Brooklyn band for an LP that continues to expand upon his genre-bending sound. Also today, Wilder releases the eye-popping official video for “Selkie Bride,” which finds a group of three selkies (or seals who shed their skin to become human) competing on an '80s-style game show to find love. 

To celebrate, Wilder will play a DJ set at his album release party tonight at The Ripple Room in the Lower East Side followed by an in-store performance and signing at Rough Trade Below on September 4. 

Listen to Psychic Lessons

On the new music video, Wilder shares: “Since the song is based on the beautiful magical realist film The Secret of Roan Inish, we wanted to make the music video more crazy with zany colors and green screen animation. Enter animator and director Clemens Den Exter and cinematographer/FX man Eric Durkin. The video stars me as a devilish game show host, sort of a cross between Blind Date and Fear Factor, and stars Jessie Jenkins, Madeleine Jennings from the bands Me At Night and Anna Worm and comedian Sabeen Sadiq as the three hapless contestants. Clemens came up with the idea of the game show trials relating to a seal’s favorite pastimes – sunbathing, fishing, and singing. It’s a pretty fun video with plenty of references to ‘80s game shows, and even a brief commercial break for my hotline 1-833-703-7337(PEEP) which is still up and running – call me now!” 

Clemens adds: “The song is steeped in folklore and rich imagery, and I wanted to embrace that, but from a different angle: something playful, unexpected, and slightly surreal. I wanted to create a music video that felt like it could have lived on one of my dad’s old VHS tapes, a hidden dating show gone wrong, a single episode that never made it past its pilot. The result is something that lives at the intersection of folklore, absurd comedy, and 1980s/’90s pop-culture parody.” 

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The album and its pre-release singles have earned widespread critical acclaim from Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, The New York Times, Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, The Needle Drop and many more. Creating a visually immersive world, Wilder previewed the album with the otherworldly “Molly’s Song” and its liquid light show inspired music video, the fuzzy meditation on mortality “Bog People” and its neon-drenched music video and the psychedelic first single “Appointment in Samarra” and its kaleidoscopic music video, directed by Jordan Fish (MGMT, Chairlift). 

Wilder and lauded multi-instrumentalist Jachary (L’Rain, Tasha) co-produced the LP, along with Walter Fancourt (a guest saxophonist on Yeasayer’s Amen & Goodbye), who helped write and record. This created an environment that Wilder referred to as a “DIY Compass Point Studios,” resulting in a record that mixes genres like chillwave, psych-pop, reggae and country to create a wholly original sound rooted in the synthetic palettes of the 1980s.

This follows his 2022 solo debut, I Don’t Know My Words, which – comparatively – found Wilder taking the spiritual exercise of going solo seriously. Stripping his songcraft down to the studs, he recorded every note himself. The hard work paid off, earning praise from Stereogum, NPR Music, Consequence and many more. Since then, he’s released the 2023 ambient album Cannibalizing The Conductor and two tracks with Maia Friedman celebrating Last Gang Records' 20th anniversary. He’s also kept busy touring throughout the US and performing DJ sets at the Crown Heights bar King Tai. Most recently, he performed two sold-out shows at Brooklyn’s Sultan Room with Delicate Steve. Stay up to date on Anand Wilder tour dates at anandwilder.com.