Penfriend, aka music producer, songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Laura Kidd, has today released her debut album Exotic Monsters. LISTEN TO EXOTIC MONSTERSHERE
Exotic Monsters builds on Kidd's accomplished ear for melody and ambitious production style, marrying disparate influences from Tanya Donelly, Juliana Hatfield and Nevermind-era Nirvana to the gritty tension of Nine Inch Nails and Puscifer and...
Penfriend, aka music producer, songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Laura Kidd, has released her brand new single ‘I’ll Start A Fire’. The latest track to be taken from her upcoming debut album Exotic Monsters, out this Friday, May 21st via My Big Sister Recordings. Pre order the album here.
Armed with wonderfully fuzzy guitars and injected with a Nirvana-esque energy, ‘I’ll Start A Fire’ is a song...
Penfriend, aka music producer, songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Laura Kidd, has released her brand new single ‘Seventeen’. The latest track to be taken from her upcoming debut album Exotic Monsters, out May 21st via My Big Sister Recordings. Pre order the album here.
‘Seventeen’ is led by a hooky QOTSA-esque riff, which drives this fuzzy anthem that sits somewhere between 90s heavyweights...
Penfriend, aka music producer, songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Laura Kidd, has released her brand new single ‘Black Car’. It is the latest track to be taken from her upcoming debut album Exotic Monsters, out May 21st via My Big Sister Recordings.
It comes with a stunning video, which really highlights the song’s themes of loneliness with sparse drone shots filmed across beautiful landscapes. The track itself...
Penfriend, aka music producer, songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Laura Kidd, has announced the release of her debut album Exotic Monsters, out May 21st via My Big Sister Recordings. Accompanying the announcement is the brand new song ‘Cancel Your Hopes’, which is an eerie, upbeat alt-rock anthem. It’s a starkly honest commentary on the world we’re living in and trying to navigate as best we can.
Penfriend, aka music producer, songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Laura Kidd, has revealed the brand-new video for the latest single ‘Exotic Monsters’, which premiered with Clash Magazine. You can watch the video here.
"We're more connected than ever, yet we're becoming more polarized,” Laura explains. “The pandemic promised a coming together of communities yet, as the third UK lockdown grinds grimly on, the...
Penfriend, aka music producer, songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Laura Kidd, has revealed her brand new single ‘Exotic Monsters’. Listen to the single here. Sparked by a throwaway phrase from Margaret Atwood's ‘The Handmaid's Tale’, ‘Exotic Monsters’ is a laundry list of asynchronous human needs and desires; a reflection of our increasingly confused, disconnected and polarised lives.
A timely reminder of the practice of cultivating gratitude through...
Penfriend has announced the release of new single ‘The Only Way Out Is Through'. Penfriend is the new project from Bristol solo artist Laura Kidd. Arriving with arms outstretched in the midst of a crisis, Penfriend offers meaningful connection in a time of global uncertainty. ‘The Only Way Out Is Through’ arrives on a wave of icy synths and 90’s guitar crunch with a message of hope and determination that...
