If their music careers don’t work out, the members of Frankenixon can always fall back on their comedy skills.

For most bands, the day their first full-length album is released is usually one of nervousness and excitement. But when asked about the relationship with their label, Bi-Fi Records, guitarist Joe Kiplinger proceeds to spit a fine mist of water from his mouth, lightly showering bassist Ben Baier and lead singer Evelyn Finch.

“Gross! I’m covered in nasty stuff,” Finch says, as she wipes the remnants of Kiplinger’s spray from her arms. “Now I smell like your spit.”

“Don’t worry, we’ve been planning that all day,” admits drummer Weston Daily. “Our real dream is to be a comedy troupe.”

Even if Daily’s stand-up aspirations never become a reality, his future with Frankenixon is looking very promising. Last year, on Halloween, the band released a self-titled EP, which was met with praise from fans and fellow musicians alike, including the adoration of indie trendsetter John Vanderslice, with whom the band has performed several times.

“[Bi-Fi co-founder] Joe Williams is friends with John,” Finch says. “Joe gave him a copy of our EP, and John came back with very positive feedback about it.”

On Thursday, exactly one year after its EP release, Frankenixon dropped its first full-length album, “Depth Perception,” which continues with the same innovative blend of pop and jazz that made the first release so successful.

All joking aside, Kiplinger says the success of the EP and the future success of the new album have a lot to do with the support the band has received from Bi-Fi.

“There’s only a limited amount of what they can do, and we’re very lucky to have the arrangement that we’ve had with them,” Kiplinger says. “There was nothing formally demanding on either side.”

Finch agrees, saying the label has never shown any signs of trying to take advantage of them for a profit.

“It helped when I moved to Ames,” Finch says. “We were all living in Des Moines or Altoona, and the communication was terrible, so we always thought they were plotting these demonical things against us or something.”

The band’s first impressions of their future label soon proved to be wrong.

“After I moved to Ames, we got a lot more in touch with them,” Finch says. “We started to [play more shows] because of them, and realized they weren’t just out to get us.”

Finch says despite a few misunderstandings and disagreements, the support Bi-Fi provides has given them the assistance they need to make a name for themselves.

“We have a mixed relationship [with Bi-Fi]. We would be worse off without them, although there are times when I wish we weren’t with a label,” Finch says. “We’re getting national distribution and national radio play with this album, and this is all stuff that we’re not paying for — they’re the ones taking out the loans.”

Despite a mostly positive partnership between the two parties, Frankenixon has yet to decide on its future with the local label.

“Right now, we’re just going to put this album out and see where it takes us,” Baier says. “I think we’d obviously like to move on to bigger and better things, and I think that’s what Bi-Fi wants for us as well.”

“The understanding has always been that we would be a ‘one full-length album’ band,” Kiplinger says. “We’ll just have to see where this album takes us.”

Finch agrees, and hopes the album not only helps them move on musically, but also geographically.

“I’m hoping that by doing this, we’ll be able to move out of Iowa eventually,” Finch says. “I’m really hoping that the album will get picked up and give us some direction as to where to move. That’s the main goal, I think — to be pointed where our sound wants us to go.”

With the release of their album and an unsure future on the horizon, the members of Frankenixon have officially reached the “make-or-break” point with their careers. Baier, however, seems content with letting the future happen as it may.

“We have a lot of goals we could probably tell you about, but the more I try to get into my mind what our goal is going to be, the more I decide to not really have any expectations,” Baier says. “You never know what’s going to happen next.”