When it comes to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, things don't always make sense. Take frontwoman Karen O's regular attire, for example. So when the band posted a somewhat cryptic message on their website, which seems to announce the making of their third album (after all, the post is titled 'Smells Like Record 3 ... Cooking In the Kitchen'), yet detours to the subject of kittens, few should be surprised.

"Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been hopscotching down the road less traveled -- from a barn in the Northeast to a ranch in the Southwest on our journey for the next sound," the group announces. "Why go rural? We're not yet sure ourselves, but 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."

The band also reveals the repeat presence of a "Kitten Factor" for the making of its third studio effort. "Fuzzy soft muses (a.k.a. kittens) have played a major role in the writing process of YYYs current and past records," the post adds. "'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," the Yeah Yeah Yeahs insist. "Alas our favorite kitten of all, beloved Squeaker arrived just in time for record three! 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."

For a picture of Squeaker, click here.