She Makes War

She Makes War is the gloom-pop solo project of Laura Kidd: multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and digital polymath. Debut album "Disarm" was released in September 2010 to high praise, gaining SMW an ardent international following and leading to support slots with Midge Ure, Chris T-T, Viv Albertine and Tom Williams and the Boat.
In 2011, around touring South America as Tricky's bassist and sin
ging in Carina Round's band, SMW won Soundcloud's Backstage Pass Award and ran a wildly successful Pledge Music campaign raising 100% of the funds needed to record "Little Battles", the new album set for release on 9th April 2012.
'Little Battles' was co-produced by She Makes War and Myles Clarke (Sparkadia, Kid Harpoon, Belakiss) in the summer of 2011. 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.