The North American debut of a Croatian/Serbian musical legend, “Alkohol,” finds Goran Bregovic — best known for his film scores in Emir Kusturica movies and, most recently, a few tunes in “Borat” — moving through a litany of musical styles and never looking back.

It’s his first proper solo record since the 1980s, when he was a rock star in Yugoslavia.

In this new work, Bregovic moves from the sad and lush (the opening instrumental “Tale III) to the sleazy (”In the Death Car”) to the bombastic (”Gas, Gas, Gas” ), pulling in multiple forms of Balkan music styles, most entertainingly a big band sound that hasn’t been this exciting since Sinatra belted them out with Basie at the Sands.

“Hop Hop Hop” is a funky, New Orleans-fused delivery of Balkan dance style, with Bregovic’s sing-song, scratchy, lilting dancing above the rhythms made buoyant by female backup singers.

The works continue to be all over the place, from the cinematic orchestral piece “Recontre” to “Man From Reno,” a pop ballad with a David Bowie-style delivery. At times, Bregovic wraps a song around Balkan styles, while at others he dispenses with that entirely, preferring a Western commercial smoothness as filtered through his aesthetic. It’s an album of chilling sadness and saucy joy — intermingled, multi-faceted and ready to fit your mood as it come to you.