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This article is about the studio album. For the title track, see Silver Sail (song). 1993 studio album by Wipers
Silver Sail
Studio album by Wipers
Released1993
RecordedZeno, Phoenix, Arizona
GenrePunk rock
Length38:26
LabelTim/Kerr
ProducerGreg Sage
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. 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.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography6/10
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
Select
Spin Alternative Record Guide4/10

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." The Rough Guide to Rock deemed the album "a return to The Circle's jazzy style of neo-psychedelic thrash." Rolling Stone wrote that Sage emphasizes "deep-pool echo and a punky, rainy-day melancholy that gives new meaning to the term power ballad."

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. Feb 24, 1994. p. 57.
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