Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anand Wilder is best known as a co-founder of shape-shifting experimental indie rockers Yeasayer, whom he helped to form in 2006 alongside longtime friend and creative co-conspirator Chris Keating. Sometime around 2008, Wilder began working on material with friend and fellow multi-instrumentalist Maxwell Kardon, whom he recorded with (among other notable guest performers) for the next several years. The resulting Break Line -- an ambitious, full-blown rock musical about a Pennsylvania coal town featuring guest spots from members of Yeasayer, MGMT, Dirty Projectors, and Vampire Weekend -- was released on Secretly Canadian in the summer of 2014. When Yeasayer decided to call it quits in 2019, Wilder was at a crossroads. Forced into lockdown with the rest of the world as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, he began writing songs that eschewed the looping electronic vistas of his flagship band for something more grounded. Playing all of the parts himself, Wilder looked to the music of his youth for inspiration, citing artists like Fairport Convention, Cat Stevens, the Beatles, and Donovan as sonic lynchpins. The resulting I Don't Know My Words, his debut solo effort, was released in 2022 by Last Gang Records. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi