This is the fourth New Orleans Suspects album in as many years—and for a band whose members have been around the block a few times, they sound pretty fresh and hungry.

The band’s already progressed from doing mostly covers on the debut to all originals on last year’s Ouroboros, but even that album sounded like a parade of styles: a groove song here, a Southern rocker there, a Mardi Gras workout or two. With Kaleidoscoped they take the next step, combining the styles into a full-fledged band sound.

Many of these songs are still groove-based, but now it’s their own groove. The opening “Get It Started” combines bits of James Brown, the Meters and Dirty Dozen into a seamless whole. The song builds to a false ending before Jeff Watkins’ sax takes it to jazzier territory, yet the central riff never lets up. “You Got the Fire” and “Round Up Dem Suspects” respectively throw fresh spins on vintage local R&B and funked-up Indian chants; and you’ve always got to love a band that will write itself a theme song. Frequent touring partners Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett join in for “Dixie Highway,” but the arrangement is more slinky and sax-driven than anything Little Feat would come up with. It sounds like the Feats joining the Suspects, not the Suspects becoming the Feat.

Guitarist Jake Eckert and keyboardist C.R. Gruver provide tasty solos when the time comes, but their solid rhythm work is really what makes this cook. As is the second-nature interplay of drummer Willie Green and bassist Reggie Scanlan—even a straight-ahead, slide-guitar rocker like “Creole Hannah” is full of syncopation. “Neighborhood Strut” is a funky finale that calls out the names of Uptown streets, and it sounds like they threw a couple downtown and Quarter streets in there as well.

If so it makes sense, as the Suspects’ neighborhood is now the whole damn town.