Silver Sail

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Field	Value
name	Silver Sail
type	Album
artist	Wipers
cover	Silver Sail.jpg
released	1993
recorded	Zeno, Phoenix, Arizona
genre	Punk rock
length	38:26
label	Tim/Kerr
producer	Greg Sage
prev_title	The Circle
prev_year	1988
next_title	The Herd
next_year	1996
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| name = Silver Sail | type = Album | artist = Wipers | cover = Silver Sail.jpg | alt = | released = 1993 | recorded = Zeno, Phoenix, Arizona | venue = | studio = | genre = Punk rock | length = 38:26 | label = Tim/Kerr | producer = Greg Sage | prev_title = The Circle | prev_year = 1988 | next_title = The Herd | next_year = 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

| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score =
|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |rev2score = | rev3 = The Great Alternative & Indie Discography | rev3score = 6/10 |rev4 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |rev4score = | rev5 = Select | rev5Score = |rev6 = Spin Alternative Record Guide |rev6score = 4/10 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

References

1. "Silver Sail Wipers AllMusic".
2. (2006). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". MUZE.
3. Strong, M. C. (Martin Charles). (April 24, 1999). "The great alternative & indie discography". Edinburgh : Canongate.
4. (1999). "MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide". Visible Ink Press.
5. "New Albums".
6. (1995). "Spin Alternative Record Guide". Vintage Books.
7. "TrouserPress.com :: Wipers".
8. (March 1, 2003). "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides.
9. (Feb 24, 1994). "On the edge".

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