Four decades after their early-80’s heyday when “Love Plus One” made them unlikely, fresh-faced pop stars, Haircut One Hundred return with an album that has all the zip and zest one could possibly hope for. Boxing the Compass finds the reconstituted group dishing out the same joyous mix of jangling guitar pop and slick horn-driven funk that made their sound unique back in the day, sounding like not a minute has passed since their acrimonious split. Front man Nick Heyward has written a fine batch of songs that lean hard into nostalgia, but never sound out of date. The record is divided almost equally between up-tempo, funk workouts that feature the guitars Chic-ing away like mad, the horns blowing up a storm, and the rhythm section locked into a serious groove.

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