As one of Boston’s latest musical additions, Birthing Hips describe themselves as “noisy defective pop music for freaks.” Carrie, Wendy, Andres, and Owen answered some questions for us on motivation, temper tantrums, and their forthcoming release. Catch Birthing Hips this month at Out of the Blue Too on December 2nd with Neutral Fixation, The Epicureans, and Symptomatic.

BH: When and where did you guys meet and start playing together?

CF: Last year, I started graduate work at the New England Conservatory and was looking for an outlet to make music that had nothing to do with school. Enter Wendy. Ran Blake suggested we play together, and we realized that we had a crazy musical connection and the same batshit tendencies. We’ve been playing together ever since. We added Andres to the band on bass, even though he’s predominantly a guitarist. Wendy’s friend Owen moved to Boston this year and perfectly completed the line-up on drums.

BH: What was your motivation to begin?

Carrie: A really earnest desire to play in a “rock band”.

Wendy: I just want to play with good people and everybody in this band is good people. Also Carrie was writing amazing music that needed to be heard.

Owen: I had heard the music and thought I could really add another layer to their sound.

Andres: I wanna play with the people I most look up to! Carrie’s my best friend and when she told me she was starting a band with my favorite guitarist I JUMPED ON IT

BH: Are there any particular themes or feelings you are trying to explore or instill in your work?

Temper Tantrums. Babies. Hips. Bubblegum. Black eyes. Pigtails. Cheerleaders. Diapers. Fake eyelashes, specifically on shrimp. Doll parts. Really tiny cups. Dislocated eyeballs. “~+Realms+~”

Carrie: I’m always trying to find new ways to terrify people and myself. As someone that has a baby face and that presents as “fem” most of the time, it is hard to instill that kind of fear in the masses. BH was the first real outlet that I’ve had to explore that side of myself. I know that this is cliche, but it is truly therapeutic to act and make music like a crazy person on stage in front of people. In fact, over-sharing weird parts of myself lyrically and musically for an audience was the only way to get over my crippling stage fright.

BH: Are there any local (or non-local) bands that you all feel particularly influenced by or admire?

We love D.N.A. We also love Ornette Coleman, Lydia Lunch, Deerhoof, Captain Beefheart, Napalm Death, Sealab 2012, Sonny Sharrock, Talking Heads, and Roy Orbison.  We love local bands Listening Woman, EKP, Ursula, YRRAPYRRAP, Mal Devisa (!), and +the+ Lautaro Mantilla. We love our friends and the friends of our friends !

BH: What is Birthing Hips currently working on? Do you have a release in the near future?

We have plans to record our first full length in the next few months — release info forthcoming?!!!

Catch Birthing Hips LIVE on December 2nd at Out Of The Blue Gallery in Cambridge!