''Silver Sail'' is the seventh studio album by
punk rock
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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.
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Production
The album was written, produced and recorded by Sage at his Zeno Studios in Phoenix, Arizona
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. Steve Plouf returned to play drums.[
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Critical reception
''Trouser Press
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'' 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."Rolling Stone
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The magazine was first known fo ...
'' 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.
# "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
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1993 albums
Wipers (band) albums