Formed in Aberdeen in 2000 - and embellished with a galaxy of brass, strings, woodwind, percussion, electronics and guitars - the oddball folk cosmonauts released their remarkable debut album in 2005.
Entitled, On How The Illustrious Captain Moon Won The War... (Snowstorm), it bagged a slew of critical praise and comparisons to the Beach Boys, Flaming Lips, Radiohead.
The Hooker's Green live shows, meanwhile, beg to be witnessed: their jazz meditations, astral disco, aquatic electronica and far-out folk are heavenly.
As are their minds, it rapidly transpired, when fervent members D-Lo and NHG dropped in on Triptych in 2006, to talk of many things: of Fennesz and Bon Jovi, of pathology and Lowry; of monster-eating hamsters and post-punk kings. And of their fascination with travelling in Space: "I'd bring my Queen tape, just to get me psyched," D-Lo dreamily proclaimed...
Can you tell us a bit about the band please?
"Hooker's Green No.1 is made of five people: NHG, J.Turgenev, Hearts, R.S. and D-Lo. We swap our instruments with assuring regularity.
"NHG likes silent contemplation on the nature of 'truth'. D-Lo likes car journeys while listening to white noise. Turgenev likes the countryside. Hearts likes nights in. R.S. likes small birds.
"All dislike the sound of Britpop repeating itself; all are haunted by the ghostly-recorded words of Dr. Jacobi: '...it is happening, again...'
"We're all at university, apart from Hearts, who's at Art School. He makes things out of papier-mache: his greatest creation so far is a canoe. As for the rest of us: NHG thinks too much about stuff. Turgenev is into fashion. R.S. is going to be a great writer, possibly even better than Agatha Christie. D-Lo makes bones in a lab."
Given that your designate is shared with a popular watercolour, are any of you painters?
"The name's actually inspired by one of the oldest parts of Aberdeen, called 'The Green', which, given its proximity to the harbour, (and thus to the sailors), became an early hotspot for prostitution. It has remained that way.
"It's also an intensely haunted and revered place of pagan worship - and our burgeoning interest in the area manifested itself in us naming our band Hooker's Green. The 'No.1' was only added after our amusement at realising that there was a shade of green with an almost identical label.
"That said, I think all of the band have tried their hand at painting at one time or another..."
If Hooker's Green No.1 was a painting, what would it be and who would paint it?
"I think it'd probably be a painting of a busy street scene - you know - homeless people, chemists, markets, queues, graves, flowers, expressions, clothes, birds; that kind of thing.
"I guess L.S. Lowry might paint it. I like the way he paints people from above, like stick men. Or ants."
The narrative nature of yr track titles - 'Love Ballads for the Cold Robot'; 'The Strode Adventure'; 'A Fantastic Voyage' - conjure cosmic fairytales: can we expect more such designations from yr new material?
"The old song titles referred to imagined sequences which were of an insular nature: that is, they were expressions of an introverted coping strategy for things which are hard to deal with in the real world.
"Conversely, our new titles reflect a desire to confront the horror, disappointment, resentment and celebration of being an adult human being in the 21st Century.
"As such, a selection of them would include: 'Bloody Great Big Fucking Party', 'Cats And Bugs And Rivers Of Blood', 'Celebration Apocalypse', 'Everyone In Your Scene Is Dead So Join Ours' and 'An Everyday Tale Of Existential Dread.'"
Sounds heavenly. Would you like to go into Space?
"YES! Space is definitely on our list of things to do. I don't care what planet; maybe a stripy planet - I bet some real outer limits shit goes down on stripy planets - like giant hamsters eating other aliens by slowly dissolving them in their cheeks.
"I think Hooker's Green would do well in space - we just have to figure out a way to make the sound travel in the airless atmosphere. The aliens would be well into the gaps between songs. They love silence.
"Whilst in space I'd quite like to ride on one of those space scooters like in Flash Gordon. And I'd bring my Queen tape and maybe Bon Jovi - just to get me psyched."
Inspired music choice. What five records are you listening to most at the moment?
"The Hymie's Basement soundtrack is providing a surprisingly apt backdrop to the small stack of Dan Clowes and Jon Adams comics I'm currently getting through.
"The new Cat Power album [The Greatest] is on pretty constant rotation, as is the recent Orange Juice compilation, The Glasgow School. I found my copy of Endless Summer by Fennesz a few days ago, so I'm listening to that a lot too - the feeling it evokes makes these last shards of winter disperse a little quicker. Tanglewood Numbers by Silver Jews is great, too."
Can you tell us a bit about Sister, Resist! please?
"Sister, Resist! is probably the best thing that has ever happened, or will ever happen, to Aberdeen [Triptych notwithstanding, we presuppose]. It's a monthly extravaganza we organise.
"I guess our aim is to arrange musically eclectic evenings by putting on acts that we find genuinely interesting and / or enjoyable, but without seeming exclusive in any way."
What artists - alive or dead - would you love to book for Sister, Resist!?
"There are loads of obvious choices that I'd happily kill to see playing Sister, Resist! - Talking Heads, Prince, My Bloody Valentine, Bjork, Kate Bush. The Olivia Tremor Control - they would be high on my list, as would most of the Elephant 6 bands.
"Oh, and Beat Happening, maybe? I'm not sure if they'd have been suited to a 'club' atmosphere right enough... oh! And Orange Juice or The Band would be ace. Boards Of Canada too...
"A Sister, Resist! Night with all of the aforementioned artists would be quite good, wouldn't it?
"It'd probably be quite busy..."