After switching labels during the post-production of its newest album, Luna returns this week with the release of the group's fifth record, "The Days Of Our Nights."

As we previously reported, a rift developed between the critically acclaimed band and its label of six years during the making of "Days." Elektra eventually dropped the band, who in turn signed with Jericho Records (see "Luna Released From Elektra On Eve Of New Album Release").

Despite the behind-the-scenes business tug-of-war that surrounded the album, Luna told MTV News that the actual making of "The Days Of Our Nights" was a much more enjoyable process than its previous record, 1997's "Pup Tent."

Luna frontman Dean Wareham and guitarist Sean Eden also talked about how the band focused on the music and the songs rather than the technical (and oft times tedious) process of recording the new album -- and credited "Days" producer Paul Kimble for encouraging a certain "less is more" work ethic.

"I think our intent with this album was not to go through what we went through recording 'Pup Tent,'" Eden explained, "which was a really laborious process, and not actually that pleasant, some of the time. And we kind of felt like we sort of analyzed things a little bit [too much] and redid things a little bit too much... maybe."

"There's a lot of stuff on that record that I like,"he continued, "but with this one, we really just wanted to go with what we felt a little bit more. And actually we felt like we should not necessarily do it like we did 'Penthouse,' but just trust ourselves and go with it. Not necessarily do a bunch of overdubs and use 48 tracks for a song."

"And not sing it like 50 times," added frontman Dean Wareham. "That was definitely [producer Paul Kimble's] vibe, 'cause he's been on the other side. He's been in a band and he's sung before. He knows it's not pleasant to sing something countless times, nor is it necessarily productive."

"You can spend days singing and resinging," Wareham said, "and patching the vocal track together from different vocal tracks, and you think you're improving it, but I'm not sure that you are."

"Yeah, it's a really hard call sometimes," Eden said.

Wareham said,

Luna has sent "Dear Diary" to radio as the first single from "The Days Of Our Nights" and will launch a fall tour in support of the new record on November 3 in Cleveland.