Fourteen years have passed since The Hooters last released an album of new material. But Eric Bazilian, co-lead singer of the Philadelphia-based band, says Time Stand Still should strike a familiar chord with listeners who remember the folk-influenced rock of the band's mid-'80s hits And We Danced and Day by Day.

"This certainly is an evolution, but it's not what you would call a radical departure," he says. "We know what our wheelhouse is."

The album, out Feb. 5, features nine new originals, a hidden track about the band's formative days and a cover of Don Henley's Boys of Summer.

One thing that has changed: The Hooters use the instrument that gave the band its name — the melodica, or "hooter" — a little less these days.

"We pull it out every once in a while," Bazilian says, "but there are a lot of instruments that do what the melodica does that aren't quite as limited or out of tune. So where the melodica might have done something before, there's an accordion to play that, or a vintage organ."

•Brian Mansfield