Silver Sail

This article is about the studio album. For the title track, see Silver Sail (song).
Silver Sail
Studio album by
Wipers
Released1993
RecordedZeno, Phoenix, Arizona
GenrePunk rock
Length38:26
LabelTim/Kerr[1]
ProducerGreg 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
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography6/10[6]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[2]
Select[7]
Spin Alternative Record Guide4/10[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. ^ a b "TrouserPress.com :: Wipers". www.trouserpress.com.
  2. ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1239.
  3. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 735.
  4. ^ a b 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.