Silver Sail
| Silver Sail | ||||
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| Released | 1993 | |||
| Recorded | Zeno, Phoenix, Arizona | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 38:26 | |||
| Label | Tim/Kerr[1] | |||
| Producer | Greg Sage[2] | |||
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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
[edit]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
[edit]| 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
[edit]All songs written by Greg Sage.
- "Y I Came" - 2:40
- "Back to the Basics" - 3:39
- "Warning" - 4:05
- "Mars" - 2:35
- "Prisoner" - 5:56
- "Standing There" - 3:13
- "Sign of the Times" - 3:16
- "Line" - 3:15
- "On a Roll" - 3:22
- "Never Win" - 2:16
- "Silver Sail" - 4:05
References
[edit]- ^ a b "TrouserPress.com :: Wipers". www.trouserpress.com.
- ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1239.
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 735.
- ^ a b Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 435.
- ^ "Silver Sail Wipers AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ Strong, M. C. (Martin Charles) (April 24, 1999). "The great alternative & indie discography". Edinburgh : Canongate – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "New Albums". selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk.
- ^ The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. March 1, 2003. ISBN 9781858284576 – via Google Books.
- ^ "On the edge". Rolling Stone. No. 676. Feb 24, 1994. p. 57.
