Silver Sail

This article is about the studio album. For the title track, see Silver Sail (song).

Silver Sail
Studio album by Wipers
Released	1993
Recorded	Zeno, Phoenix, Arizona
Genre	Punk rock
Length	38:26
Label	Tim/Kerr [1]
Producer	Greg Sage [2]
Wipers chronology
The Circle (1988) Silver Sail (1993) The Herd (1996)

Silver Sail is the seventh studio album by punk rock band Wipers, released in 1993. ^[3] After disbanding Wipers in 1989 and releasing a 1991 solo album, Sacrifice (For Love) , Sage decided to release a new album under the Wipers name.

Production

The album was written, produced and recorded by Sage at his Zeno Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. Steve Plouf returned to play drums. ^[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography	6/10 [6]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[2]
Select	[7]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	4/10 [4]

Trouser Press wrote: "A more deliberate pace allows Sage’s virtuoso playing extra opportunity to bob and weave, float and tickle, tease and torment; he introduces hints of quiet surf music, spaghetti westerns and other lonely, timeless sounds." ^[1] The Rough Guide to Rock deemed the album "a return to The Circle's jazzy style of neo-psychedelic thrash." ^[8] Rolling Stone wrote that Sage emphasizes "deep-pool echo and a punky, rainy-day melancholy that gives new meaning to the term power ballad." ^[9]

Track listing

All songs written by Greg Sage.

1. "Y I Came" - 2:40
2. "Back to the Basics" - 3:39
3. "Warning" - 4:05
4. "Mars" - 2:35
5. "Prisoner" - 5:56
6. "Standing There" - 3:13
7. "Sign of the Times" - 3:16
8. "Line" - 3:15
9. "On a Roll" - 3:22
10. "Never Win" - 2:16
11. "Silver Sail" - 4:05

References

1. "TrouserPress.com :: Wipers". www.trouserpress.com.
2. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1239.
3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 735.
4. Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 435.
5. "Silver Sail Wipers AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
6. Strong, M. C. (Martin Charles) (April 24, 1999). "The great alternative & indie discography". Edinburgh : Canongate – via Internet Archive.
7. "New Albums". selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk.
8. The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. March 1, 2003. ISBN   9781858284576 – via Google Books.
9. "On the edge". Rolling Stone. No. 676. February 24, 1994. p. 57.