It’s hard to believe that the multi-talented multi-instrumentalist of Crash Test Dummies fame is living right in Murfreesboro. Saul Zonana, whose accomplishments include a producing career, touring with Deep Purple and The Animals (yes, really) and an extensive solo career, just added a tenth solo album to his résumé called Fix the Broken. This work, though far Zonana’s first in producing, singing, songwriting or playing, is possibly his most important.

Always striving to progress as a songwriter with each subsequent release, Zonana’s Fix the Broken is about as all-encompassing of its writer’s career as it gets. As someone who has written songs since the age of three, Zonana’s had a hand in playing, writing and recording music from the ’70s up to the present, and the result is a record with straightforward, expressive songwriting and fine-tuned instrumentation – but with no definitive genre. Fix the Broken is 10 genre-less songs whose sound spans the decades and are infectious, sugary, clean, polished and accessible in topic and sonic appeal to just about anyone.

The artist’s intent here seems to be more about the “doing” of the record – writing what he was thinking, playing what sounded good, producing the album – than trying to make the album itself “do” anything. That, in itself, is one of Fix the Broken’s most attractive qualities. Good for him – after all, there’s little left for Zonana to prove musically.

Zonana’s vocals are infuriatingly smooth and reassuring, crooning over meticulously arranged instrumentation done entirely by Zonana save for percussion and a bit of piano and cello at AI Nashville and Murfreesboro’s Studio Z. Fix the Broken, which can be narrowed down no further than calling it a collection of pop songs in a classic rock frame, is irrefutably well-constructed by someone who’s had a lifetime of practice.