THE SKY MOVES SIDEWAYS

There is one good way to listen to PORCUPINE TREE's music. By forgetting everything else and to not try to compare it with anything else, because that's what it is. "The Sky Moves Sideways" stands up for itself as the Most Explorative, Progressive, and Chaotic album of the 90's, even more than PT's "Signify" or any other release by Steven Wilson's band ever. The album starts with the majestic sounds of the first phase of the title-track, with the space atmosphere and the Indian Music-Driven bridge in the middle of the song, to the triad of "Dislocated Day-Prepare Yourself-the moon touches your shoulder", three songs that in my opinion should be one. Anyway, the next track is defnitely, the most experimental and commented song of PT, the 17-minute impro, "Moonloop", that has had lots of other versions (just check out "Transmission IV"), and ends with the second phase of the title track. In all forms possible, and from anyone else's point of view, this album remains a masterpiece for its integrity, and for the fact that works like this come from the soul, and come directly from improvisations, so, it remains a masterpiece, in any part of the universe.