Nearly two years on from the release of his debut album Mind of Mine (barring a couple of single releases here and there since), Zayn Malik is finally giving fans what they want most: more music.

The singer has taken to his Instagram page over the last couple of days to share snippets of him singing to new music, and yesterday came the confirmation that the clips are all taken from his second album, as he captioned one video with "Taster z2".

The first sign that Zayn was getting ready to drop some new material on us came when he started posting poems on Instagram (or Zoems, as he called them), while some fans speculated that his follow-up will be called Z2.0 thanks to yet another Instagram post.

Then came the music clips, starting with a few simple videos of Zayn singing over some piano chords as well as a few shots of Zayn playing the piano.

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The most recent clips , posted over the last day or so, feature Zayn accompanying himself with a guitar too.

And, going by what we've seen so far, it very much sounds like Zayn has taken some advice from his old pal Liam Payne and stripped it down for album number two.

Speaking last March, Zayn revealed that he was "really happy" with how his second album was shaping up, while later in September he added that he was still tweaking songs and the tracklist to get it all looking and sounding perfect.

"Every day I find another song that I'm swapping out with another one. That's why the album date hasn't really come yet," he said.

"Even though the album is pretty much there and I have the material, I'm still changing things here and there."

He also added in the September interview that the album would be out "soon" or in the "next couple months", so it looks like that time is finally here.

Or at least getting closer.

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