Still Got That Hunger (The End Records), the sixth studio release from The Zombies, marks the first time in nearly 50 years that the British invaders have cracked Billboard’s Top 100. The last time they reached the charts it was for “Time of the Season,” a radio staple with one of classic rock’s most recognizable stanzas. That was March 1969, a year after the song was introduced to the U.S. by way of The Zombies’ sophomore album, Odessey and Oracle, a near-perfect amalgam of lush, psychedelic ’60s Brit-pop that rightfully has been placed alongside the likes of Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and maybe one or two others as the decade’s paragon rock records.

While the four surviving members who made Odessey and Oracle—singer Colin Blunstone, keyboardist Rod Argent, bassist Chris White, and drummer Hugh Grundy—toured the States this past fall playing that album in its entirety, Blunstone and Argent made Still Got That Hunger with the band that has been backing them in recent years: guitarist/vocalist Tom Toomey, bassist Jim Rodford, and drummer Steve Rodford. Though financed in the most contemporary of means (a crowdfunding effort on PledgeMusic), the most striking thing about the LP is how much it sounds like it’s from another era. However, it’s not the flower-haired, swirling epoch of pot, protest, and Peter Max illustrations that spawned the band’s enduring 1968 masterpiece, but rather the lighter sounds of ’70s radio rock. Album opener “Moving On” strikes a cadence reminiscent of The Eagles’ “One of These Nights,” while “And We Were Young Again” evokes Steely Dan’s lilting, layered choruses. Two of the songs are remakes; “I Want You Back Again” is a more bombastic re-imagining of the band’s jazzy 1965 tune, while the standout “Now I Know I’ll Never Get Over You” first appeared in a folkier form on Blunstone’s 2009 solo release, The Ghost of You and Me.

Themes of gratitude and love and perseverance prevail.  The soulful doo-wop piano track “Edge of the Rainbow” is a paean to the triumph of hope through adversity, while  “New York” is an ode to American rock and soul progenitors and the city itself. “And I came to love you New York,” Blunstone sings. “Your energy your honesty every time. City of a million dreams, you gave one up to me.” With its $2,500 a month studios, there’s something anachronistic about celebrating the artistic possibility of New York in 2015 and perhaps even in the idea of a record devoid of irony and embitterment. But from a band with a legacy as respected as The Zombies, it’s a refreshing, even reassuring, tone. To still have that hunger after 50 years, and fans eager to financially support your craft, is cause for celebration.