Following this week’s news that Disclosure were being sued over “stolen lyrics”, the Lawrence brothers have released a statement about the affair.

Songwriter Katie Farrah Sopher alleges that a notebook of lyrics was stolen in 2009 by her ex-boyfriend Sean Sawyers, who then sold her songs to his music industry contacts. She’s claming more than £200,000 in damages over four songs – Disclosure’s ‘Latch’ featuring Sam Smith, ‘You And Me’ featuring Eliza Doolittle, and ‘White Noise’ featuring Aluna Francis of Alunageorge, as well as her own group’s hit ‘Attracting Flies’.

All the lyrics were allegedly inspired by Sopher’s five-year relationship with Sawyers, including references in ‘White Noise’ to domestic violence that left her “black and blue”. The songwriter says her ex-boyfriend was “jealous and possessive and… believed she was cheating on him, which made him violent and reluctant to allow [her] to speak to other men,” according to legal documents seen by the Mail on Sunday.

Disclosure’s statement claims that “every song we put our names to has been written by us”, and when they do collaborate – such as with featured artists and songwriter Jimmy Napes, “we always make sure everyone gets proper credit”. They conclude by stating that the allegations are “completely false, as anyone we have ever worked with will back up.”

In brighter news for Disclosure fans, their second album is “coming along nicely”.

Here’s their statement in full:

Just wanted to post a little something for our fans who may have read the blogs in the last couple of days and help clear up some speculation that has been circulating, to do with whether or not we wrote the lyrics to some of our songs.

Firstly we want to make it very clear that every Disclosure song we have put our names to has been written by us. We sometimes write lyrics and melodies along-side whoever the featured singer may be (i.e. Sam, Eliza etc) and the great Mr. Jimmy Napes, but that is it. When we do, we always make sure everyone gets proper credit. We take great pride in our self sufficiency, our work and the way we work, and it’s incredibly frustrating when someone tries to take that away from us, by claiming we stole even one word or one note of our music from anyone.