English quartet The New Mastersounds have, over 10 LPs since 1999, carved out and owned their own musical calling card: guitar-driven, rhythmically precise, tightly-wound funk with a double shot of jazz. It’s a far cry from, say, the blowouts of Lettuce—this is keep-it-classy funk. The band recorded its latest, Made For Pleasure, in a converted church outside New Orleans. As such, we hear horns taking front and center on the exuberant “High & Wide,” which tears open a heavy, swirling groove. “Enough Is Enough” follows suit, with a familiar shout-along from American Idol semi-finalist Charly Lowry—“We got to keep-keep movin’ on, we got to keep travelin’ on”—over punchy horns. “Sitting on My Knees” is the type of funk workout that could unspool forever and you’d never get bored—frontman Eddie Roberts’ guitar is so exacting in its funkiness, every churn and somersault feels fresh. Where the Mastersounds step a bit too far out is on a cover of Iggy Azalea’s pop smash “Fancy,” recast as a lumbering reggae tune. Amid an album of soul, R&B and jazz tunes, the laid-back vibe is a bit too relaxed here, breaking up this set of taut beats. Still, dinner party or dance party, Made For Pleasure is truth in advertising.