Let’s celebrate! It’s one year since my debut Penfriend album landed at #5 in the Independent Albums Chart and #24 in the Official UK Albums Chart, and got me a spot next to Billie Eilish in Music Week Magazine.

I couldn’t have done this without your support, so I’d love you to join me for a special FREE livestream event.

The gig will take place on my YouTube channel – here’s the direct link to set a reminder / watch live on the night / watch later.

Hooray live music!
Hooray first gig poster in forever!

If you’re a Facebooker, here’s the event – all sharing much appreciated!

And if you’re like “Exotic whatnow?” – here’s the album.

Hope to see you there xo

THANK YOU for visiting my website! I’m Laura Kidd, a music producer, songwriter and podcaster based in Bristol, UK. It’s great to meet you.

+ Get your copy of my album “Exotic Monsters” and browse my back catalogue right here.

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Have a lovely day xo

My first album under the name Penfriend (and my fifth solo album), “Exotic Monsters” marked the start of a new musical chapter. Written, produced and recorded in my home studio The Launchpad between February 2019 and September 2020, and funded by my beloved member’s club, the album was released on my label My Big Sister Recordings on 21st May 2021.

Thanks to the support of independently minded music fans, it reached #24 in the Official UK Album Chart the following week (plus #5 in the Independent Album Chart and #3 in the downloads chart!), a win for indie music makers and fans everywhere. We bloody did it!

Thank you so much for helping make my childhood dreams come true. Thank you for supporting indie musicians. We need you! Eternal thanks to all Supersub Club and Correspondent’s Club members for always having my back. 🖤🖤🖤

Now then…who’s ready to make another album?

🛒 Get a copy of “Exotic Monsters” on limited edition coloured vinyl or CD plus browse my back catalogue and merch in my shop.

🔍 Read more about how I made the album and how we got it in the pop charts.

Stream the album in full below and scroll down for the three music videos so far…

THANK YOU for visiting my website! I’m Laura Kidd, a music producer, songwriter and podcaster based in Bristol, UK. It’s great to meet you.

+ Get your copy of my album “Exotic Monsters” and browse my back catalogue right here.

+ Get two free songs immediately when you sign up for thoughtful letters about art and music.

+ Watch my weekly YouTube videos here and browse episodes of my music podcast “Attention Engineer” here.

+ You can also follow me around the web, on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Have a lovely day xo

I’m somewhat stunned and very excited to announce my song “Black Car” is The Weather on episode 208 of the Welcome To Night Vale podcast, “Cecil in The Big City”.

Wow. Hugest thanks to the Night Vale team for picking my song. What an honour!

I wrote and recorded “Black Car” alone in my home studio The Launchpad in September 2020. It’s a song about love and death, guilt and gratitude, taking time to figure out what’s most important, feeling desperately sad and isolated and grieving the loss of so many.

I don’t know what other bands “Black Car” sounds like, or have any clever phrases lined up to entreat you to click “play”. This is an honest, melancholy song about a universal experience that will be discussed in the history books of the future, guitars and synths centred around a heady electronic heartbeat, with a reverent Kurt Vonnegut reference (“loving echoes”) in the middle.

Keep your loved ones close x

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THANK YOU for visiting my website! I’m Laura Kidd, a music producer, songwriter and podcaster based in Bristol, UK. It’s great to meet you.

+ Get your copy of my album “Exotic Monsters” and browse my back catalogue right here.

+ Get two free songs immediately when you sign up for thoughtful letters about art and music.

+ Watch my weekly YouTube videos here and browse episodes of my music podcast “Attention Engineer” here.

+ You can also follow me around the web, on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Have a lovely day xo

From 2009-2019 I made music under the name She Makes War, releasing 4 and a bit solo albums and playing nearly 600 shows.

“Little Battles” is available to pre-order on vinyl for the first time ever right now, remastered for vinyl by Katie Tavini with new “cover version” artwork by Ben The Illustrator.

Recorded in East London in summer 2011 and released on my own label My Big Sister Recordings the following year, this album was generously funded by music fans via my first Pledge Music campaign. I was able to spend 33 days in the studio (double what I could afford for my debut “Disarm”) and realise my dreams of creating a deeper, more layered album.

Recorded just around the corner from the Hackney riots, London’s crackling tension is echoed within the 15 songs, but if love is a battlefield this album is a peaceful protest: honest and vulnerable, yet steely and sure of itself, all melancholy romance and wide-eyed hope for the future. It’s about collisions – analogue with digital, war with peace and technology with nature.

Stream the album in full below and subscribe to my channel for more videos xo

From 2009-2019 I made music under the name She Makes War, releasing 4 and a bit solo albums and playing nearly 600 shows.

My debut album “Disarm” was recorded and mixed in 17 days at the end of 2009, fan-funded via a Bandcamp pre-order and released on 1st September 2010.

“Disarm” is available to pre-order on vinyl for the first time ever right now, remastered for vinyl by Katie Tavini with new “cover version” artwork by Ben The Illustrator.

Stream the album in full below and subscribe to my channel for more videos xo