I’ve spent the last couple of days enjoying the latest album release, the fifth in-fact, from General Fuzz aka James Kirsch, titled Soulful Filling.

James was good enough to get in touch last year when I was looking for some down tempo music I could listen to while working, and suggested I give his compositions a try.

The General Fuzz music is just right, not to upbeat, not too slow either. Some extensive cover notes, detailing the album’s production, also accompany Soulful Filling:

I took a new approach when working on tracks for this album. I’d start a song, and as soon as I began to get frustrated with it, I would start a new one. Once I had a couple tracks started, and I’d get frustrated with a current track, I would revisit the previous ones. It would fall into one of three buckets: worth working on, possibly worth revisiting, or deleted. If I decided it was worthy, I would work on it until I got frustrated, and then move on to the next started track. I kept iterating through tunes like this - and I discovered that I felt a lot less frustrated overall.

All of James’ work is free to download by the way.