Silver Sail

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Silver Sail
Silver Sail.jpg
Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedZeno, Phoenix, Arizona
Genre Punk rock
Length38:26
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.

Contents

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
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography 6/10 [6]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Select U+25A0.svgU+25A0.svgU+25A0.svgU+25A1.svgU+25A1.svg [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. 1 2 "TrouserPress.com :: Wipers". www.trouserpress.com.
  2. 1 2 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1239.
  3. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 735.
  4. 1 2 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.