Wipers, The - Silver Sail LP Record - BRAND NEW - Re-issue Remastered
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Brand new sealed record.
Wipers, The - Silver Sail [LP] (reissue)
Jackpot Records JPR82805 789397828519 LP Punk, Surf, New Wave, Psychedelic Rock
Depending on whom you ask, the early Wipers recordings either innovated punk, invented what came to be popularly known as ''grunge'', or initiated the blueprint for DIY postpunk. A listen to the1993 release Silver Sail puts the Wipers legacy in an entirely new context.
It's 1993 and ''grunge'' has exploded from the basement to the shopping mall, being pipelined into the mainstream corporate consumer culture. Sage and his Wipers watch as their in?uence is diluted from passionate teenage revolt to soft drink commercial.
Rather than scramble to cash in, Sage ignores the outside world and digs deeper into his singular and solitary sense of self and again creates an album ahead of trends and outside of time.
Written and recorded while Sage lived in Arizona, the desert informs Silver Sail's dry, desolate and ghostly feel. The downtempo pieces are positively haunted by it. Stand-out tracks such as ''Y I Came'', and the albums centerpiece, the epic and lumbering ''The Prisoner'' countervail the heavy guitar sounds of 1993 and exhibit traits of the then burgeoning slow-core scene.
Side Two is all plodding surf rock, eerie soundtracks and jangly punk echoing an Athens, GA sound through the ?lter of Northwestern gloom and 90's detachment.
Above all Silver Sail's best moments come from being exactly what it is: Deeply personal, constantly searching and undeniably unique. In other words, it is a Wipers record.
Tracklist
A1 Y I Came
A2 Back To The Basics
A3 Warning
A4 Mars
A5 Prisoner
B1 StandingThere
B2 Sign of the Times
B3 Line
B4 On a Roll
B5 Never Win
B6 Silver Sail
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