Silver Sail is the seventh studio album by punk rock band Wipers, released in 1993.[4] 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.

Silver Sail
Studio album by Wipers
Released	November 16, 1993
Recorded	At Zeno Studios, Phoenix, Arizona
Genre	Punk rock
Length	38:26
Label	Tim/Kerr[1]
Producer	Greg Sage[2]
Wipers chronology
The Circle (1988) Silver Sail (1993) The Herd (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography	6/10[5]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[2]
Select	[6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	4/10[7]

Production

The album was written, produced and recorded by Sage at his Zeno Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. Steve Plouf returned to play drums.[7]

Critical reception

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