The record, which is the follow-up to 2006's 'Show Your Bones', is expected this spring.

The band revealed the album's title in a special cartoon on their MySpace page which featured a conversation between baby chicks and a raccoon.

In the cartoon, the chicks ask the raccoon: “What the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs record called?” to which the animal replies: “'It's Blitz'.”

At the end of last year, a post on the band's website promised the album would be "not much like anything you've heard from us before".

(by Jason Gregory)