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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have debuted their first new song since 2009 at a Hurricane Sandy benefit concert last weekend.
The band played a show at Union Pool in New York, with all the money raised going to charity Waves 4 Water and their Hurricane Sandy Relief Initiative.
They played 12 songs, which were taken from all of their past three albums, including 'Gold Lion' and 'Heads Will Roll'.
They also included new song 'Despair', which Spin magazine described as: "a spare thumper that recalled Florence and the Machine's 'Dog Days Are Over,' with Karen O singing about wasted days, nights, years, life.
"She struck a melancholy tone, crooning about tears stinging her eyes, but concluded clear and assured, "Nothing to fear" as the track ramped up and she hopped around, punctuating the swelling music with her signature staccato "Hey!"s."
Frontwoman Karen O had said at the beginning of the song, "We're gonna take it back to a time when there were no cell phones that could take pictures," and it seems her wish may have been granted as there is so far no YouTube footage of the new track.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Leeds O2 Academy in 2009.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a new album planned for release in 2013, which is currently untitled.
According to Jason Bentley, speaking on radio station KCRW, the follow up to 2009's It's Blitz! is scheduled for release in 'springtime' next year.
The full set list of the New York show was:
Runaway
Black Tongue
Art Star
Phenomena
Soft Shock
Gold Lion
Sealings
Maps
Despair
Heads Will Roll
Poor Song
Tick
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