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The Wipers 'Silver Sail'
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Jackpot Records
The Wipers 'Silver Sail'
£18.99
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 the 1993 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 influence is diluted from passionate teenage revolt to soft drink commercial.
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 filter 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.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Y I Came
2. Back To The Basics
3. Warning
4. Mars
5. Prisoner
Side B:
1. StandingThere
2. Sign Of The Times
3. Line
4. On A Roll
5. Never Win
6. Silver Sail
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