Sentence:  Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early '00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it's a good joke. With "Hot Cakes"—the group's third album, and first since <WSD>reforming</WSD> last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To form again or in a new configuration.