Chris Herin

The Tiles guitarist returns with Hiding in Plain Sight, a star-packed album (Alex Lifeson, Martin Barre) that should give us all pause for thought

- JON WIEDERHORN

WHEN DETROIT PROG rock band Tiles went on indefinite hiatus in 2018, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Chris Herin started writing new songs to keep himself busy. At first, Herin had no intention of recording a solo album, but as months turned to years and Herin's catalog of new songs grew, he began working with longtime collaborator and producer Terry Brown. Over several years of on-and-off work, the two assembled Hiding in Plain Sight, a musically diverse record based on the battle Herin's father underwent with dementia before he died. "I wanted the music to trace the path my father took from the point where his behavior started getting odd and all the way through the trajectory of the disease," Herin says.