CALLING all Darklings - come into the light, for the kings of comedy rock have returned.

After this four-piece's first album, Permission To Land, featuring the ridiculously catchy hit single I Believe In A Thing Called Love, it would have been easy to write them off as nothing more than a tongue-in-cheek, one-album wonder.

Thankfully, this was not to be. Once again I'm pleased to say it's more of the same from big-haired, jumpsuit clad frontman Justin Hawkins et al.

The album opens with the title track, which is just as irritatingly catchy as any of their previous hits - and the rest of the album doesn't disappoint either.

If titles such as Knockers, Dinner Lady Arms, Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time and Bald don't raise at least a smile, the listener must have had a sense of humour bypass.

Not to mention hilarious lyrics like "I just love what you've done with your hair", "And she said 'hoots, I cannae get back tae me hoos in bonny Scotland'" and "Bald, slap-headed and hairless, bald he is destined to be, bald, well tonight thank God it's him instead of me".

The Darkness are kitsch, cool and, quite frankly, bonkers. And I wouldn't have them any other way.

MC