It’s been a busy year of headlines for Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips: sledging Arcade Fire, emerging victorious from a tussle with the Oklahoma House of Representatives, taking requests at Pitchfork Music Festival…and now a new album.

Speaking with Billboard this week, Coyne revealed the successor to 2006’s At War With The Mystics will be a double-disc set. The band has written 13 tracks, with eight or nine more in the works. The frontman is hoping for a more spontaneous, sprawling offering than past albums.

“Somewhere along the way it occurred to me that we should do a double album,” Coyne told Billboard. “Just this idea that you can kind of weave a couple of themes into there and you can sort of sprawl a little bit.

“Some of my favorite records – thinking Beatles White Album, Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti and even some of the longer things that the Clash have done – part of the reason I like them is that they’re not focused. They’re kind of like a free-for-all and go everywhere.”