Zayn Malik famously left One Direction to pave his own way musically and he's on his way to do that. This year, his hotly-anticipated album will be hitting the shelves -- and not a moment too soon. In a new cover interview from Billboard, the music heartthrob revealed more about the upcoming record.

"My fans are giving me shit every day," Malik said in the interview. "Like, 'Where the f--- is your music? You've been at it for months. Give us something.'"

The former boy band member is working hard on his new musical project saying, "I'll come down here and record maybe seven songs a night. That's because I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I'm not censoring myself anymore, so I'm not tired. I love it."

Billboard revealed some of the titles of the tracks that will be part of the album including "BeFour", "It's You", "Wrong" and "She". While there are likely hordes of the One Direction fanbase who are eagerly waiting for his new songs -- especially now that the band is on its highly publicized hiatus -- they shouldn't expect the same sound from Malik.

"I genuinely enjoyed [the band] and did whatever I could to be myself within that, but it's just not where I sit as a musician," he explained in the interview. "The other boys' taste was generally indie rock. It's good music, but I don't f--- with it. That was never cool where I was from."

Perhaps it's the different directions musically that pulled Malik from his well-established place in the boy band, but he denied reports of rivalry between himself and former bandmates. He didn't buy One Direction's latest hit album, but he insisted, "There are no sides to pick. We're not going head-to-head."

Despite the lack of competition between the two parties, Malik revealed that the friendship isn't quite there anymore -- not like before, anyway.

"The truth of it is you can think one thing about a situation and the total opposite can happen," he explained during the interview. "I had every intention of remaining friends with everybody, but I guess certain phone numbers have changed and I haven't received calls from a lot of people. I've reached out to a few of them and not got a reply. Certain people have pride issues, but it's stuff you overcome in time."

Although his friendship with the boys may be strained, Malik's relationship with model Gigi Hadid seems to be going well. The high-profile pair has been spotted looking cozy in the streets of New York, as well as on social media, as reported by a report from E! Online.