In the latest tale of attempted artist extortion, Disclosure have responded to recent legal claims that their songs ‘Latch’, ‘White Noise’ and ‘You & Me’ were in fact taken from a stolen song notebook sold onto the market by a scorned ex-boyfriend.

Songwriter Katie Farrah Sopher alleges a note book of lyrics was stolen by her ex-boyfriend in 2009 at the end of a tumultuous and violent relationship at the hands of the ‘jealous and possessive’ Sean Sawyers and sold to his music industry contacts returning in the form of UK dance hits from the likes of Disclosure and AlunaGeorge.

In a statement on social media, Disclosure shut down the claims immediately –

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.