Formed in 1984 and winning the CITR Radio’s first Shindig and with critical acclaim from the Vancouver Sun and Discorder Magazine for their debut EP, Taste Tests, Vancouver indie-rock band, “Red Herring” came out with a new album today, Neon. The Neon EP features the complete return of the original 1980s lineup, Enrico Renz (guitar and vocals), Martin Walton (bass), Stephen Nikleva (Guitar), Steve Lazin (Drums) Id Guinness (keyboardist), and Tania Gosgnach (backing vocalist).

 Included with Neon is the lead single and music video, The Brain Song. This song was also just featured on The Strombo show’s Halloween episode. It was a good fit because watching this psychedelic horror of a music video made me almost comatose with its kaleidoscopic visual and trippy sound. If this video was a child, its Father would be Frank Zappa and the Mother would be Tommy Chong.  Who needs drugs when you can just watch this instead. (please do drugs responsibly) 

Also including this album is the music video Julia, a slow pace love song with beautiful vocals and soothing guitar rips. A very relaxing song, with the opening reminding me of something out of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth.  When William Cooks from “Vancouver Weekly”  interview the songwriter Enrico Renz about Julia said, “This is the most romantic song on our album Neon. I was reading a lot of Alan Watts (known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism for a Western audience) at the time, and I think you’ll find a lot of him in the lyrics.” –

The Album is now available on their website (https://redherring1.bandcamp.com/community) and Spotify. For more information about the band’s history, please check out their Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/redherringvancouver/ )or follow them on Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/redherringvancouver/ )