Laura Kidd is a record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist releasing music and podcast episodes as Penfriend, and formerly known as She Makes War. After releasing four full length albums between 2010 and 2018, She Makes War was formally disbanded in December 2019, and she launched new music project Penfriend in May 2020, with accompanying weekly podcast series Attention Engineer. Her collaboration project with Rat (Ned's Atomic Dustbin), Obey Robots, launched in December 2020. Penfriend Multi-disciplinary solo project Penfriend launched on 1 May 2020 with an invitation to join The Correspondent's Club, Kidd's handmade member's club set up to provide an online space for music fans. In May 2021, Kidd released her first record as Penfriend. Exotic Monsters reached #24 in Official UK album chart and #5 in the independent chart. Attention Engineer podcast Kidd's podcast series on creativity, grit and determination launched on 3 June 2020, featuring conversations with other artists, musical and otherwise. Described as "a lovely listen...As a musician herself, Kidd...talks with insight and warmth...but these are not the back-slapping all-slebs-together podcasts that we’ve become used to" (The Observer). Guests include Tanya Donelly (Belly / The Breeders) and Mark Chadwick (Levellers), who appeared as guest vocalists on Kidd's third She Makes War album, "Direction Of Travel", plus Ayse Hassan (Savages), Frank Turner, Charlotte Hatherley, Bernard Butler, Corin Tucker, Robin Ince, Lou Barlow, Shingai and more. She Makes War Launched in 2009 with the release of EP "Three...Two...One", She Makes War was Kidd's first solo project. Her fourth album, Brace For Impact, was released in October 2018 and secured a no. 15 UK Independent Albums Chart placement on 12 October 2018. She has released three previous albums Disarm (2010), Little Battles (2012) and Direction Of Travel (2016). The project finished with the release of And Peace in 2019, intimate re-recordings of eight tracks spanning all four albums. She Makes War's indie rock sound combined grunge riffs with orchestral soundscapes. John Robb described Kidd in 2011 as "a modern musical Boudica", and Will Butler wrote in 2015 that she possessed "The emotional resonance of Elliott Smith colliding with the barbed vigour of Sleater-Kinney" (Gigwise). In 2015, She Makes War released Disarm: 15 an EP of "tender reworking of songs" from the first album. She Makes War's first two albums Disarm (2010) and Little Battles (2012), share stories from the personal to the political, dealing with matters of love, loss, birth,