Yeah Yeah Yeahs blog about new album, love of cats

There's been no no no new information on post-punk popsters Yeah Yeah Yeahs forthcoming LP for a few months now, but hints are starting to drop across the blogosphere that something is in the works. Having grown restless with the cramped confines of the city setting, the NYC-based trio shook off their urban ennui and hightailed it to more rural locales to record its new album. They made a grand tour of it, too, trekking from a barn in the Northeast to a ranch in the Southwest, because, as they recently wrote on their blog, "one thing the city don't have that the country got is SPACE and there has been plenty of spacing out in the studio as of late."

And whodathunk that felines would feature so prominently in the recording process? The same blog post comments: "Fuzzy soft muses aka kittens have played a major role in the writing process of YYYs current and past records. Show Your Bones was written in Sam Spiegel's home studio amidst the birth of a litter of kittens, little gold lions scrambling around. Amazingly therapeutic, nothing turns a frown upside down (there are many frowns in the record writing process) as a purring kitten in your lap. Alas our favorite kitten of all beloved SQUEAKER arrived just in time for record three!"

This wouldn't be the first time that the rockers tipped their hand on just how much they love cats. The post ends with this tantalizing tidbit: "Abandoned by his mother, we've watched him grow before our very eyes from a blind and helpless little thing into a frisky and fierce little beauty- much like the tunes we're writing. Go figure."

Related links:
YeahYeahYeahs.com
Yeah Yeah Yeahs on Myspace
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