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Luddites
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Out of 11 votes - Similar Artists: Barenaked Ladies, Poi Dog Pondering, Camper Van Beethoven
Out of 11 votes
- Location: Ferndale, Michigan, United States
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Alternative Folk
Editor's review
You'd think they'd avoid uploading their music online, but thankfully Michigan's Luddites made that one concession to modern technology. The 11-piece "folk orchestra" generally shuns electronics of all sorts, playing a brash, acoustic klezmer-polka hybrid that makes up for the lack of juice with searingly clever lyrics and string-popping energy.
Biography
Unpredictable and unplugged, The loudest acoustic band on earth.
The Luddites are an 11 piece folk orchestra that redefines the image of acoustic
music. The Luddites take their name from a rabble of desperate English textile
workers who, in the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, took to smashing
factory machines in an effort to preserve the ideals of humanity and
craftsmanship.
Today's Luddites are no less rebellious, shunning electronic
trappings and embracing all things wood. Equipped with an arsenal of string'd,
skinned, and reedy things they play original music that mix-matches folk, rock,
zydeco, calypso, klezmer, ragtime, and Bourbon Street swing. They are often
silly, sometimes sobering, always very, very entertaining.
