Wayne Coyne has revealed that the Flaming Lips are set to release their first ever double album at some point this summer.

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

“Our past couple of records we've always had this little dilemma, like how many songs do you put on? How many instruments do you put on? What's the focus?”

He added: "And 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.

“It's not necessarily because we're prolific, I think we always stay in a sort of perpetual panic of like we never have more songs than we need and we always wonder if any of them are any good to begin with.

“I do think we probably work best in a panic, so maybe it's best that I planned it this way."

Coyne explained that the inspiration the record came from jam sessions at Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd's house.

He said: "I think with this there was an element of accidentally stumbling upon more spontaneous sort of freak-out stuff.

"We were sitting at (drummer) Steven's house and we just started out having these freak-out jam sessions where he'd play drums and I'd play bass and we just would sort of do freaky stuff.

“Some of those recordings, even though they're not recorded very well, really had a spontaneity about them that we probably wouldn't have purposely done.”

(by Daniel Melia)