Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa is the second album, released in January 2016 by the German label AOR Heaven, four years after the debut. The title is Latin for a blank slate. This time drummer Erik Wigelius took on the production and finished the record himself, with his brother Anders Wigelius and guitarist Jakob Svensson co-producing and Patrik Janson newly installed on bass. The four years were not empty ones. In that time the brothers produced Care of Night's debut and kept writing songs for other singers, and this album was built alongside that work. For Japanese listeners, the identity of those other singers should be the interesting part. The two have supplied songs to Sexy Zone, Supernova, Fudanjuku and chay, and are deeply connected to the Asian scene; the Japanese edition added "Wild Woman," recorded new for that release. The music opens with "Do It All Again," past five minutes, then "Deja Vu" with a Svensson solo that reviewers seized on, and "These Tears I Cry." "Time Well Wasted" and "Please Please Please" had already appeared as standalone singles back in 2014, when the album was still due from a different label in spring 2015. The piano-led ballad "My Cherie" closes all twelve.