Tucked away in a pint-sized recording studio just three blocks away from the Pacific Ocean, Californian upstarts Incubus are putting the finishing touches to their debut full-length album, 'Science'.

For those of you who've been gagging to hear more from the quintet who were last seen here supporting Korn in January, you'll have to wait till the autumn to experience the 'Science' effect. But in the meantime, Kerrang! is here to take you to a virtual listening party of that hotly - anticipated debut - courtesy of guitarist Mike Einziger, drummer Jose Pasillas, bassist Alex Katunich, DJ Gavin Koppel and singer Brandon Boyd.

Korn fans will recognize one of the LP's stand-out tracks, 'Redefine', according to the rather pixie-faced guitarist Mike. "It's one of our really 'live songs, We played that song every night when we were on tour in Europe, and it went over really well with the crowd. It's a really intense song - heavy and funky at the same time."

Brandon is fondling his didgeridoo. "It's just about 100,000 people jumping up and down as hard as they can." Simple, eh?

'Idiot Box', meanwhile, is about TV culture.

"Television," muses Brandon, still fondling, "isn't good for your brain. In the song, I fantasized about a world without TV."

Any of you guys ever done the rock'n'roll thing and smashed one?

"I did once, dude," confesses DJ Gavin. "In this abandoned house. I stuck my hand into an old TV and the glass was ultra sharp. It just sliced my hand - see that scar right there? It was gushing blood. I'm like, 'This isn't as cool as I thought...'."

A lesson well learned, young man. But what's 'Nebula' all about? Two cackles of laughter, the band confess that it's allegedly about Brandon floating through space with a Bruce dickinson hairdo. Eh?

"When we play that," says Mike, "I think of Iron Maiden galloping through space on their space horses..."

This is all getting too weird. What have these boys been on?

"It's, er, just jungle mixed with Iron Maiden," is the only slightly more sensible explanation from Brandon.

Of the 12 tracks, the potential classic seems to be 'Summer Romance - The Anti-Gravity Song'. Incubus reckon it's their "porno song" - especially when the sax break comes in. "It's music to make love to," grins Mike. And no, he doesn't look old enough.

"I think of that one like all those cool TV shows with the great theme music," continues Alex. "The ones where you know there's gonna be chicks, cars and danger - like anything with Tom Selleck in!"

"We Definitely exceeded the cheese-ball limit on that one..." Brandon comments. He's finally stopped fondling his didgeridoo.

'Science' has taken incubus six weeks to record, with producer Jim Wirt at the helm. Apparently, Jim has "great hair".

"Jim's the coolest," enthuses Brandon, "because he helps bring out the best in us, the weirdest parts of us, the most melodic, the most intricate, the simple - everything."

And once the album hits the shops this autumn, Incubus are determined to zoom straight back to the UK to tour.

"We LOVE Europe!" grins Mike.