They’ve just recently wrapped up their North America tour, now One Direction are ready to move on to their project – their sophomore album.

The boys – Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik – recently told MTV News that they’ve been hard at work preparing for their next release, saying, “We’ve been recording already, actually,” Niall said. “When we came back from Australia, we had a couple weeks off and then we went straight into the studio to get cracking on the next album.”

“We wrote an absolutely cracking song that we’re all kind of very excited about… And then last week we were in LA and we had five days off the tour to record in LA so we recorded more there,” he added.

Horan also said that the five-member group intend on spending all of July and August “getting the album done.”