Interview With She Makes War

She Makes War. When she’s not making war she makes music. Sometimes she makes cakes, and presumably she also makes a bit of love from time to time. I don’t think she makes model aeroplanes or bespoke suits from hare hair though. She BTW, is Laura Kidd, a multi-mental-instrumentalist from ‘that London’ who delivers edginess with a side order of war-paint. Her edginess may have come from her time playing session bass for Tricky or singing with The Young Punx, but now it stands alone, all edgy, dystopian and shit, like she’s the gloom-pop princess about to inherit Melissa Auf Der Mar’s throne or something.

Weighty issues and edginess form the crux of her eagerly-anticipated debut LP – Disarm – which contains a plethora of diamond-sharpened grunge songs documenting love, loss, betrayal, homicide, genocide, crap friends and animal urges. If you imagine the grainy tumult of Blood Red Shoes fortified with an intriguing blend of Telecaster, ukulele and loopology, then polished off with an angsty ranting rasp, you’re close to the proverbial bone. Though you don’t need to take my word for it. The free track we’re dishing out here (Olympian) is a pretty awesome Kills-esque number. You have permission to make up your own mind.

Because we were feeling suitably lazy (and also because we thought it might be interesting) we asked previous Negative Narrative contributor Catherine A.D. to set the questions for She Makes War. I think you’ll agree that the responses are both interesting and visually pleasing.

Vehemently against the systems and processes of the traditional music industry, She Makes War is forging her own quirky path, and is succeeding making waves by her own rules. But hey, what did you expect from a sonic warmonger who occasionally dresses as a unicorn.