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"GET PSYYYYYYYYYYYYCHED!" There's (a very small bit of) new news about the recording of LP3 from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who have been holed up in the country for some time now, petting a kitty and crafting the follow-up to 2006's Show Your Bones. Today, a new post appeared on the band's MySpace blog updating interested parties on their progress. Kind of.

Here's what we now know: the album's close to done, though we won't hear it until next year. It reportedly sounds very different than their previous work, though if you're wondering, "DOES IT SOUND LIKE THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS??? YOU BET YOU'RE SWEET ASS IT DOES." Thank you very much for the compliment, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Add that to the puzzling missive back in June, and you've got... well, you've got a new Yeah Yeah Yeahs record on the way. And that's about it.

In other, more concrete Yeah Yeah Yeahs news, Karen O and Nick Zinner appear on the N.A.S.A. debut album The Spirit of Apollo, out via Anti- on February 17. And Zinner appears on The Time of the Assassins, the debut LP from Nikolai Fraiture of the Strokes' new Nickel Eye project, which is due January 27 from Rykodisc.