Anand Wilder has released his new LP Psychic Lessons, which is now available via Last Gang / MNRK. To celebrate, Wilder has released a new music 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. Wilder is also the co-founder of influential Brooklyn band Yeasayer.

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.”

Wilder and 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.

Anand Wilder
Psychic Lessons
Tracklist
Mnrk/Last Gang Records

1. Appointment In Samarra
2. Broken Beyond Repair
3. Molly’s Song
4. Darling Please
5. Social Exile
6. Give Us A Wink
7. Tech Job
8. Selkie Bride
9. He Believed In It
10. Get A Dog
11. Bog People
12. Living Beside You

pre-order Psychic Lessons by Anand Wilder HERE