Within the music industry and among music professionals this is considered one of Diamond's better and more creative recordings. īillboard praised Moods highly, saying it contained "brilliant, diversified material." This album, and its follow-up live album Hot August Night, are generally acknowledged to be the two most important recording projects of Diamond's career in terms of defining his signature sound for the future. The album entered Billboard on July 15, where it reached No. It contained the second of his No.1 songs, " Song Sung Blue", and was something of a follow-up in style to the highly experimental Tap Root Manuscript. But this drama is invigorating, and refreshingly easy in its own skin.Moods is the eighth studio album by Neil Diamond, released by Uni Records in 1972.
Sasha is a woman in pain, and this can be painful to watch. Yet it creeps up on Sasha slowly, with almighty power. We are sure to find out soon.ĭarkness is there from the beginning of Mood, and always threatening to intrude. Carly wonders if it’s really any different from bikini pics on Instagram. Under Carly’s influence and tutelage, Sasha starts to see the sex work of “camming” – performing in front of a webcam – as a potential solution to her money troubles. During a drug deal, Sasha meets the vivacious, chaotic Carly, a party girl who brings her into an even messier orbit. There is a boldness to how the show explores its themes. Inevitably, Sasha has to find somewhere new to live, and it takes her off into an entirely different world.
Sasha’s relationship with her family is strained, and a showdown with Kevin that starts as a fairly straightforward row turns into a near-slapstick mess that is as funny as it is horrifying. There’s a self-loathing rap as Sasha figures out what happened at her ex’s house, and in the second episode there is an exquisite scene at the jobcentre, when Sasha’s internal critic turns the whole thing into a foul-mouthed song and dance. Occasionally, when a song breaks out, it lends this a more amateur feel, which jars with the rest of the story, which is so confident and assured. It can take a bit of adjusting to the frequent appearance of songs that reference characters by name, as it’s not a musical as such. The music is a big part of the show, and Lecky performs original tracks that she wrote herself. She is irritated that it disappears, which sets the tone nicely: she is not going to be an easy-to-root-for heroine, but someone far more complicated and nuanced. Then the music grows tinny, she lifts her phone, and that world falls away. At the start of the opening episode, she twirls and moves through her estate, flanked by backing dancers and clouds of flare-pink smoke. Sasha’s pop-star ambitions are played out as imagined music videos. The recent Chloe, on BBC One, had a similar line in teasing out the reality behind the filters.
There are enormous cracks between the truth of any situation and what people put online, and this tension continues to fascinate storytellers. The fact that her hands look distinctly fire-blackened suggests the night did not end well.īoldness … Lecky as Sasha. There is a voice note that she musters up the courage to listen to – with growing horror – and short flashes of scenes that may or may not be helpful revivals of her memories. Mood’s ability to cook up an atmosphere of anxiety is remarkable: when Sasha checks her phone to see 44 outgoing calls to a man named Anton, I felt my chest tighten. In the first episode, Sasha wakes up in her bedroom at home, next to a half-full kebab tray, and attempts to piece together the events of the previous night. Sasha is 25, lives at home with her mother and stepfather in east London, and in the tradition of all good dramas, she kicks off proceedings by blowing up her life.Īlmost literally, in fact.
#NIGHT MOODS SONGS SERIES#
This six-part series started life as the well-received Superhoe at the Royal Court theatre in London, and though the name did not survive the transition, writer and star Nicôle Lecky reprises her role as Sasha here.
#NIGHT MOODS SONGS TV#
Much like Fleabag and Chewing Gum before it, Mood (BBC Three) is a TV transfer of a one-woman play.
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