Australian pop-rock band 5 Seconds Of Summer have revealed that they wrote over 100 songs for their upcoming album, but have managed to whittle it down to around 20 as they start figuring out the final tracklisting. 

Bassist Calum Hood, who recently admitted that to deal with homesickness he texts his mother every day to ask her advice on everything going on in his life, told Fuse.TV that they're now picking the songs that will make up the record and they're almost finished:

"We're pretty much finished with the album. We've written over 100 songs now and we've finally whittled it down to 20 or 25. We're really proud of it because we've been writing for so long, so it's good to finally have a body of work of ours."

In the same interview, Hood also confessed that some fans sent male strippers to the house in Los Angeles they were staying at: "Not this tour, it's been pretty packed. It's been quite busy, but we had strippers sent to our house once when we were staying in LA. Male strippers, actually. They were in cop uniforms. Like, really tight ones."

5 Seconds Of Summer, meanwhile, have revealed that if the opportunity to write songs with One Direction presented itself they would jump at the chance: "They're writing a lot more which is amazing. If anything, it'll probably be a spontaneous decision between us, but I'd love to."

Watch a recent interview with the boys here: