A year ago, Florence Welch was holed away in the studio with a who’s-who of producing talent. In January 2010, the process will start again, with Florence and the Machine‘s hugely anticipated followup to Lungs expected in late 2010.

Speaking to BBC 6Music‘s Steve Lamacq, the singer spoke of her desire to consolidate the number of producers on her yet-to-be-titled sophomore effort:

“I think I would like to go and work with quite a few people, do loads of demos and then probably record it with just one person,”; her follow-up promises to be a more cohesive offering.

Florence was also quick to admit the shortcomings of her commercial debut: “The first album was a real experiment,” she said. “I’d like to have one that’s more of a whole. The Lungs album was kind of a scrap book about all the different things I was getting excited about from moment to moment.”

Fortunately, preparation for the grueling recording process has already begun: “I’ve almost been doodling songs, having little phrases and ideas going around and they keep popping up in sound checks,” she said. “I’ve got a lot of ideas floating around and I think I’ve got an idea of how I want to do it as well.”

Little has been said of the album’s direction, but it’s unlikely to move too far from the simple formula- epic + harp + earth-mother = music gold.