''The world needs the Darkness," declares Justin Hawkins, the group's mustachioed guitarist and falsetto-voiced singer, "whether it knows it or not."

As with most things concerning the Darkness - the ludicrously attired U.K. rock band that rose to fame with its 2003 debut, "Permission to Land" (Atlantic), before imploding in 2006 - it's hard to know if Hawkins is being serious or tongue-in-cheek.

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