Little Battles
by She Makes War
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Digital Album
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Level 1: Little Battles CD
No extras, but 'nuff frills - the same gorgeous artwork as all the other levels, but no DVD / hand numbering.
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Level 2: Little Battles Ltd Edition CD/DVD Set
You get:
- Signed, limited edition hand numbered CD/DVD
- Badge pack
- 2 commemorative postcards
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Level 3: Little Battles CD/DVD + Disarm CD
You get:
- Signed, limited edition hand numbered CD/DVD (DVD contains the 30 minute "Making Little Battles" documentary)
- Badge pack
- 2 commemorative postcards
- first album "Disarm" on CD
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Level 4: Little Battles CD/DVD + Multimedia Art Bundle
You get:
- Signed, limited edition hand numbered CD/DVD (DVD contains the 30 minute "Making Little Battles" documentary)
- Badge pack
- Set of postcards
- Handwritten lyric sheet for one of the new album tracks
- Special video performance download link
- Hand numbered limited edition illustrated lyric book
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Level 5: Multimedia Art Bundle + Skype Performance
You get:
- Signed, limited edition hand numbered CD/DVD (DVD contains the 30 minute "Making Little Battles" documentary)
- Badge pack
- Set of postcards
- Two handwritten lyric sheets
- Special video performance download
- Hand numbered limited edition illustrated lyric book
PLUS a special 30 minute Skype chat / performance for you and your friends - song requests possible, certain polite terms and conditions apply - contact laura@shemakeswar.com with any questions about this!
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Little Battles Art Cassette (Ltd Edition of 50)
The new album on blue cassette with Dymo labels and gold stars - super limited edition with hand numbered, signed cardboard sleeves and photocopied handwritten track listing with drawings by LK.
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Intro
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Minefields
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Exit Strategy
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Butterflies
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Magpie Heart
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Delete
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In This Boat
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Blue
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Never Was
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Done And Said
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Segue
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Out Of My Hands
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Shields And Daggers
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Disarm
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about
Hello! Laura Kidd here aka She Makes War, an independent DIY solo artist making gloomy pop music and videos. Thanks for stopping by.
I'm very pleased and proud to present my second album "Little Battles", recorded in East London in summer 2011 and released on my own label, My Big Sister Recordings.
The Bandcamp version contains extra bonus audio, video, photo and a special musical challenge - I hope you enjoy it!
I'm an entirely self funded artist trying to spend more time on the SMW project, but I also strongly believe that people should be able to participate in the arts by contributing what they can afford. So, if you want to get involved and help fund the project please do, but don't feel bad if you can't.
* If you download this album for "free" please consider making a donation to War Child - every little helps www.warchild.org.uk *
There are lots of ways of helping DIY artists like myself get their music out to a wider audience, I've written about it on my website here: shemakeswar.com/community/a-call-to-arms/
Please do get involved in the project by sharing this with your friends and visiting some of the links below:
Website: www.shemakeswar.com
Mailing List: ymlp.com/xgumuyhugmgj
YouTube: www.youtube.com/warriorgrrltv
Twitter: twitter.com/warriorgrrl
Thanks so much for reading and listening.
Lots of love
Lau xx
I'm very pleased and proud to present my second album "Little Battles", recorded in East London in summer 2011 and released on my own label, My Big Sister Recordings.
The Bandcamp version contains extra bonus audio, video, photo and a special musical challenge - I hope you enjoy it!
I'm an entirely self funded artist trying to spend more time on the SMW project, but I also strongly believe that people should be able to participate in the arts by contributing what they can afford. So, if you want to get involved and help fund the project please do, but don't feel bad if you can't.
* If you download this album for "free" please consider making a donation to War Child - every little helps www.warchild.org.uk *
There are lots of ways of helping DIY artists like myself get their music out to a wider audience, I've written about it on my website here: shemakeswar.com/community/a-call-to-arms/
Please do get involved in the project by sharing this with your friends and visiting some of the links below:
Website: www.shemakeswar.com
Mailing List: ymlp.com/xgumuyhugmgj
YouTube: www.youtube.com/warriorgrrltv
Twitter: twitter.com/warriorgrrl
Thanks so much for reading and listening.
Lots of love
Lau xx
credits
released 09 April 2012
Produced by Laura Kidd and Myles Clarke at Studio B, London Fields between June and September 2011. Mastered by Dick Beetham.
All music and lyrics by Laura Kidd except track 8 - excerpt borrowed from "Rising Tide Of The Disconnected" by Djevara with lyrics by Usuyak Bassey.
All instruments and programming by LK except morse code on track 1, drum programming on tracks 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, additional drum programming on tracks 7 + 12 and piano on track 12 by Myles Clarke.
BUTTERFLIES
Harp - Kat Arney
Violin - Milly McGregor
MAY OUR DAUGHTERS RETURN HOME
Vocals - Tasmin Archer, Dana Jade, Annie Gardiner + Anna Madeleine
Monotron - Anna Madeleine
Harp - Kat Arney
IN THIS BOAT
Piano - Chris T-T
Violin - Milly McGregor
Vocals - Usuyak Basset + Chris T-T
OUT OF MY HANDS
Hula hooping - Julia Kidd
DISARM
Harp - Kat Arney
Art Direction, Design & Photography - Laura Kidd
Front cover illustration - Marnie Pitts
Back cover photography - Laura Ward
Produced by Laura Kidd and Myles Clarke at Studio B, London Fields between June and September 2011. Mastered by Dick Beetham.
All music and lyrics by Laura Kidd except track 8 - excerpt borrowed from "Rising Tide Of The Disconnected" by Djevara with lyrics by Usuyak Bassey.
All instruments and programming by LK except morse code on track 1, drum programming on tracks 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, additional drum programming on tracks 7 + 12 and piano on track 12 by Myles Clarke.
BUTTERFLIES
Harp - Kat Arney
Violin - Milly McGregor
MAY OUR DAUGHTERS RETURN HOME
Vocals - Tasmin Archer, Dana Jade, Annie Gardiner + Anna Madeleine
Monotron - Anna Madeleine
Harp - Kat Arney
IN THIS BOAT
Piano - Chris T-T
Violin - Milly McGregor
Vocals - Usuyak Basset + Chris T-T
OUT OF MY HANDS
Hula hooping - Julia Kidd
DISARM
Harp - Kat Arney
Art Direction, Design & Photography - Laura Kidd
Front cover illustration - Marnie Pitts
Back cover photography - Laura Ward
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She Makes War is the DIY gloom-pop solo project of Laura Kidd: multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and digital polymath. Blending urgent, grungey guitars with processed beats, heady pop melodies and a liberal dusting of glitter, She Makes War has drawn comparisons to artists from Blur to Blood Red Shoes, Melissa Auf der Maur, REM and Bat For Lashes. ... more
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Jun 28London, UK
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Jul 06Stroud, UK
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- Track Name: Minefields
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Stranger. Lover.
Suck air and water
Minefields and murder
His breath I long for
I'm in the wrong place, my stomach is sick
As I flounder around trying not to lose sight of it
Nothing feels right – he's too far away
Let the planets collide cos there's no point in fighting them now
Ice flows through my veins
Hot love will soothe me
Steep hills and slate skies
My eyes in your eyes
I'm in the wrong place, my stomach is sick
As I flounder around trying not to lose sight of it
Nothing feels right – he's too far away
Let the planets collide cos there's no point in fighting them now
My eyes in your eyes
I'm in the wrong place, my stomach is sick
As I flounder around trying not to lose sight of it
Nothing feels right – he's too far away
Let the planets collide cos there's no point in fighting them... - Track Name: Exit Strategy
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Sometimes I’m only talking to myself
Yeah I know you’re getting worried for my health
Leave it
I’m just a solitary soul
Sick of these pleasantries
All right
You can watch as I dissolve
But when I wake
I want you here to have to hold
You’re so tired of these
Drama queen tendencies
So I face my pretty tragedies
I contrive, survive
Little battles in my mind
Yeah I make my exit strategy
I deny, I don't try, I don't try
You say there’s nothing to fight
Ohoh but sometimes
All I can do is scream fire! fire! fire!
Squealing and wolfbiting
I’m tearing skin got to push all the good back in
And so I face my pretty tragedies
I contrive, survive
Little battles in my mind
Yeah I make my exit strategy
I deny, I don't try, I don't try
Blood and treasure
I love, I lose
Delivering
The blackest bruise
Saving face
Let’s beat retreat
Withdrawal doesn’t mean defeat - Track Name: Butterflies
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Butterflies
Lead me with your lovely lies
With lonely lips and heavy hips I've tried
But I'll always lose to butterflies
But I don't mind
I'm not wasting my time
And though I won't be fine
I'll find a way in
I'll find a way in
Butterflies
Lead me with your lovely lies
With open seams and scattered dreams I've tried
Bye bye bye - Track Name: Magpie Heart
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I didn't see, I didn't spy
Still chasing shadows made me blind
Sick of the sight of me today
This magpie heart will make me pay
Your beautiful face is leaving
Your beautiful smile receding
Gone for the ghost not for the guy
How could I?
How could I?
Your beautiful face is leaving
Your beautiful smile receding
You gave me your bravery
Your beautiful heart is bleeding - Track Name: Delete
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Don't stop
Pass by
We didn’t know that we’d survive
A simple start
I wasn't expecting to fly
I’d like to delete myself
Don't like to repeat myself
I’d like to delete myself
Don't like to repeat myself
It's no
But don’t go
Everyone’s getting old so quickly, what are we gonna do with this now
I’m so tired
I wasn’t thinking about kids and the future
I’d like to delete myself
Don't like to repeat myself
I’d like to delete myself
Don't like to repeat myself
Ohhh
Don’t stop the clock
Don’t mention the time
Eyes front and we’ll all be fine
Some sorry state
You left me in
Tearstained, scuffed and dazzling
I’d like to delete myself
Don't like to repeat myself
I’d like to delete myself
Don't like to repeat myself - Track Name: May Our Daughters Return Home
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In this city of dead women
Breezes blow subdued
People run from the night stalker
Hiding sordid truths
May our daughters return home
May our daughters return home
It's cold in the desert
Pink crosses fly
Advertising the absence
Of a young girl's life
Pale hearts and quiet bodies
Mothers fight and cry
No-one told you
But they are all our daughters too - Track Name: In This Boat
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In this boat I look for signs of morning
In these sails a bond I cannot keep
In this heart I hear a siren calling
Set to sea I turn my salty cheek
Don't wake up
Don't cry out
In these arms I hope for sweet surrender
In these veins I hunt for poetry
In this vessel floating to the future
Weeping weather fills the cold grey sea
Don't wake up
Don't cry out
Don't make a sound
Let tempest come
His won't be done
Illuminate my arrow
In this boat is all we ever needed
In this storm I know we will not drown
In this battleship far from homeland
Rock this body
I'll ride the wave back down
Don't wake up
Don't cry out
Don't make a sound
Confusion go - protect my home
On land or sea they won't take me
Let tempest come
His won't be done
Illuminate my arrow
You are an anchor
I am a wave - Track Name: Blue
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Blue is my favourite mood
It's the colour that most reminds me of you
Blue – it's that colour
It goes with everything and
It reminds me of you
Blue
There's nothing to it
Blue
I'm settling in to this
Blue
But I'm getting through it
Blue is my favourite mood
It's the colour that most reminds me of you
Blue – it's that colour
It goes with everything and
It reminds me of you - Track Name: Never Was
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Never was something for me to hold on tight
Never was someone for you to keep inside
Capture these memories that we never made
In my lomographic dreams he's hazy, lazy, light leak fade
Arise, arise
Imaginary boy made shining knight
NEVER WAS
Never was someone for you to keep inside
Never was something for me to hold on tight - Track Name: Done And Said
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All is number, all is time
Bitter histories and losing my mind
This chilly conversation's tired
It's all been done
It's all been said
It's all been tragic in my head
It's all been done
It's all been said
We are homesick space stations
Thrusting hungry fingers towards the sun
Cross this sparkling chasm, come
It's all been done
It's all been said
It's all been tragic in my head
It's all been done
It's all been said
But I'm not ready to regret
Writing sentences in the dark
I'm marking time, clutching for the right words in the right order
We are shadow walkers
Shit talkers needlessly filling empty air
Dumbly accepting of this particular drama
We can stand with the fire at our backs
Innocent, comfortable, numb
But this pale meat craves sweeter sleep
Visions of dancing in the bright, with you
It's all been done
It's all been said
It's all been tragic in my head
It's all been done
It's all been said
But I'm not ready to regret - Track Name: Out Of My Hands
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We're so sick of sad stories
In this land of glory
Don't tell me to simmer down
Don't say its out of my hands - Track Name: Shields And Daggers
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I said there's nothing to talk about
I said there's nothing left
I said I didn't believe you
That I'd rather be done with this and go back to bed
I thought I had proven my valour
But there's always something in the way
Now these wounds are salty and sweet
And my forcefield is flickering
You said it's typical of me
You said I shouldn't have gone
These shields and daggers don't keep us safe any more
Will you take me more seriously?
I thought I had proven my valour
But there's always something in the way
Now these wounds are salty and sweet
And my forcefield is flickering - Track Name: Disarm
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We’re hunting for shade
We’re making brave
Time breeds time
But time is leading us away
With love in my fingers
Oh
And dirt on our knees
Time breeds time
And it’s time to set off wandering
I’m willing to see
Dreaming bodies
Are all we’ll ever be
