All four members of True Womanhood are 23 years-old, and they come across as appropriately youthfully excited about what they’re doing. They’ll each gladly let you know anything and everything cool that’s going on around town. But while that youthfulness initially translated into a sort of skittish stage show, the band has grown into its spirit and fervor, channeling it into crazy beats to go along with their highly emotive songs.

This is a band that likes to experiment. Although the most frequent comparisons are to Sonic Youth and Radiohead (in no small part due to the timbre of singer Thomas Redmond’s soaring voice), Redmond, bassist Melissa Beattie, guitarist Ross Kerr and percussionist Noam Eisner are far more interested in the latest and most interesting new music, and hope to be considered as a part of that wave. Considering how much they’ve improved since their debut in April, this might not be an unreasonable request. We met up with True Womanhood over sandwiches to talk about their love for art galleries, small alternative venues and Jurassic Park.

Find them online at: http://www.myspace.com/truewomanhood

See them next: February 25 at Metro Gallery in Baltimore

How long have you guys been together as a band?

TR: Since April.

You’ve had some pretty good gigs for being a band since April. Have there been any national touring acts that you count as being particularly awesome to open for?

TR: HEALTH was great. That was actually before Noam joined, so that was in March I think?

NE: Actually, I was at that show. In the audience.

TR: But to answer your previous question that show we did with HEALTH. I sort of asked Scott Verastro who used to book at the Velvet Lounge, like “Hey, can we open for HEALTH?” kind of as a joke and he said, “Okay.” And that show sold out in minutes and was a huge success. And then HEALTH’s booking agent from Panache booking, I guess every time she had a band coming through which was like The Mae Shi or I think there were some other ones that we ended up not being available for but anytime she came through she’d ask for us and, I mean, it worked out. The Mae Shi worked out particularly. The Death Set was supposed to play that show. But they dropped off. I guess there was some bad blood or something. So she asked for us to fill the spot. We were happy to it was a great show.