Silver Sail

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Silver Sail
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Studio album by
Wipers
ReleasedNovember 16, 1993
RecordedAt Zeno Studios, 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)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography 6/10 [5]
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 [6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 4/10 [7]

Silver Sail is the seventh studio album by punk rock band Wipers, released in 1993. [4] 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. [7]

Critical reception

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

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