Brooklyn quintet Apes & Androids are my favorite face-painting, Ziggy Stardust-loving, Queen-channeling party band.

Their debut full-length, Blood Moon, is a futuristic throw-back surprise filling out 18 tracks of effervescent carousal, and it’s highly recommended. Here’s just one of those scintillating tracks:

Apes & Androids : “Golden Prize” (mp3)

This week Perfect Porridge got the chance to chat with group co-founder Brian Jacobs in an exclusive interview…

Where are you right now?
Right now I’m sitting amongst a pile of my crap. Not that kind, you sicko! I just moved to a new apartment. Do you know a good place to buy a dresser? Not too big and not ugly either, but cheap.

How is your new album, Blood Moon, being received by your fans/new fans?
The response has been overwhelmingly positive, which of course makes us very happy.

Tracks like “Make Forever Last Forever” have so many layers and progressive elements to them. What’s your songwriting process like to get a song to this level?
We spend a lot of time trying out ideas, scrapping them, trying others, etc. Sometimes things go really quick, other times we have to really drudge it out, but we never feel like we’re done until it’s just so. I think in the studio is where we work the hardest and everything else about our project stems from that.

What’s the one song from Blood Moon that perfectly encapsulates A&A?
I’d almost go so far as to say that it’s something we strive for to not have one of those songs. So I think all of them and none of them?

You guys have an insane live show. What’s one of the craziest things that’s happened (planned or not) at a recent show?
I think the most insane thing that’s happened at basically every show is that we’ve gotten through the entire set without things totally falling apart. There are so many things that can go terribly terribly wrong with our show and I’m completely amazed that they haven’t. Oh and after we played last Halloween there were two people outside the venue, on the sidewalk doing it with a crowd of people watching. Seriously.

Which makes a song better - handclaps or snaps?
Handclaps for dancing, snaps for sexing.

At SXSW ‘07 when I saw your set, you guys were quite liberal with the silly string. Is that a regular thing?
We didn’t bring that silly string. I think it’s just the kind of thing people feel compelled to do (and why not). Here’s the thing about silly string: It gets all over EVERYTHING, and after the first five seconds it exists, when it’s deflated and slimy, it’s not so silly anymore. It’s disgusting.

What bands are you guys listening to these days?
The Dirty Projectors are pretty rad. Also Steely Dan.