Kevin Bronson on February 8th, 2012

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Nobody told the Darkness the joke was over. The cartoonish Brits found more than 720,000 saps customers for their 2003 debut “Permission to Land” (it sold 1.3 million in the U.K.) before going quietly into the booze- and drug-filled night, its second album face-planting at 100,000 in sales and frontman Justin Hawkins ending up in rehab. Now, even though today’s anything-goes marketplace has encouraged a new breed of young bands to regurgitate rock clichés, the Darkness is back. There they were in a Samsung commercial during the Super Bowl, and they plan to release an as-yet-untitled album in mid-2012.  The new video for “Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us” is the very cool work of Thom Lessner and Ted Passon. In the Darkness’s world, expect nothing but animation.

||| Download: Visit the Darkness’ website and trade your email address for a download of “Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us.”

||| Live: The Darkness play a sold-out show on Feb. 19 at the House of Blues.