For almost 25 years, the Tex-Mex trio ZZ Top has walked with a swagger the size of Texas. Accompanied by muscular guitar riffs and a bluesy sensibility, Billy Gibbons and company have an innate gift of finding writhing grooves and an unmistakable bravado in everything they do.

With “Mescalero,” ZZ Top proves the more things change, the more they stay the same, as the band sounds amazing two decades after its inception.

Even the most downtrodden Top song has a jaunty swagger and attitude most modern bands can’t touch. “Mescalero” is brimming with classic guitar lines and the quirky storytelling that has endeared fans to the band since “Eliminator.”

Mining grooves deeper than the Grand Canyon, tunes like “Alley-Gator,” “Me So Stupid” and “What it is Kid” showcase Gibbons’ talent for simple, catchy guitar lines that will have any listener bobbing his or her head incessantly.

Likewise, Gibbons and the group channel the spirit of Chuck Berry on the cautionary “Punk Ass Boyfriend” and deliver the blues George Thorogood-style on “Buck Nekkid.”

The other integral element of ZZ Top is the band’s innate ability to incorporate Mexican elements into seemingly American blues tunes. On “Mescalero,” they inject a little mariachi flare on songs like the plodding and trippy “Goin’ So Good,” the talkbox-tinged “What Would you Do” and “Que Lastima,” which is sung entirely in Spanish.

The group may not have garnered a hit since the ’80s, but ZZ Top can still pump out head-bobbing, toe-tapping blues and rock with the best in the world. “Mescalero” is the perfect record for new fans to latch on to and will please longtime fans with a smattering of everything the band has become famous for.

With a new record, a nomination into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and a legion of fans spanning the globe, ZZ Top should be blazing Texas back roads and juke joints for decades to come with no signs of slowing down or softening up.