Are you ready for some Icky Thump?

The White Stripes

That's the enticing title of the White Stripes forthcoming album, which the blues-rock duo announced on its Web site last night.

In a cryptically worded post, under the guise of a report by Kitayana Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisofaa of the Moscow Bugle, Jack and Meg White said, "We are doing our best [whatever that is] to release the album as soon as corporately possible. And though we are tired, worn, weary, hungry, cold, and left without an ounce of nutrition amongst ourselves, we are in the midst of planning performance-type shows around the world."

The Stripes have already announced performances in support of the album at Bonnaroo, as well as Germany's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals in June.

The album, which was recorded in Nashville at Blackbird Studio, doesn't yet have a release date on Warner Bros., the label to which the duo signed after V2 Records ceased to be a working label. But the record, the Stripes' sixth, does have a handful of tentative song titles:

"Catch Hell Blues"

"Little Cream Soda"

"Monkeys Have It Easy"

"Rag and Bone"

"Clicky Bump"

"Blue Orchid"

"You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)"