Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to begin work on second album
By Sam Rigby
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are set to start work on their second album.
The pair released their debut The Heist in 2012 and have enjoyed global success with singles like Thrift Shop, Can’t Hold Us and Same Love.
Lewis told The Huffington Post that he and Macklemore (real name Ben Haggerty) are “very excited” about recording new material.
On their plans to record the album, he said: “For Ben and I, we just have a history of very much fully diving in and focusing on one aspect of what we’re doing and trying to really put other things to the sidelines. If we’re touring, we just don’t have a good track record of jumping in and writing songs and going to various studios.
“Us being in the studio means that we meet in the morning and we leave in the morning,” Lewis continued. “We do that seven days a week. That’s what our season of making an album looks like.
“We are ready to hibernate and we have rough drafts and stuff that we’re walking on and very excited about,” he added.
Their equal marriage anthem Same Love peaked at number six in the UK and number eleven in the US. They performed the song with Madonna at the 2014 Grammy Awards in January. Watch the music video below:
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0[/youtube]
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