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. Kidd cited a desire to “keep putting out the most honest, thoughtful and brave music I have inside me long into the future” and 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.