One Direction announces new album

One Direction has just announced the cover, title and release date of their much-anticipated second album, Take Me Home – out November 9, pre-order available September 3. The tracklist hasn’t been released as yet, but thanks to an unnamed source deep in the One Direction camp, Time Out have received this exclusive information:

“It’s a much darker album,” we’re told. “The band felt that the perky, upbeat pop of the debut didn’t accurately reflect where they were as artists and they’ve really taken creative control this time around. While first single ‘Live While We’re Young’ is a throwback to the One Direction of old, the rest of Take Me Home is, as the title suggests, an exploration of the sorts of issues that affect young men as they leave the giddy thrills of adolescence behind and look to the future: specifically, as new homeowners.”

The leaked tracklisting is as follows:

1. Live While We’re Young
2. Mortgage On My Heart
3. This Carpet is Hideous (But Floorboards Would Look Great)
4. That’s Not Going There
5. Friday Night Is Party Night, But Tuesday Night Is Bins
6. Hot Shelvin’
7. Spackle Up The Cracks (Of Our Love)
8. Love is the Rug
9. That Lawn (Won’t Mow Itself)
10. Chronicles of Zenarth: The Trial of the Goblin King (What Makes You Beautiful part 2)