"The Mt Eden studio gives you freedom to be there as long as you want, as opposed to a very limited amount of time.
"We'd normally pay for our previous two albums anywhere between $800 to $1500 a day and that puts certain time constraints on you.
"So what you tend to do is learn up all your songs, get them all down before you go in there, go in there, throw them down as quick as you can, then leave.
"It's not hugely conducive to the creative process so by doing this we have basically a limitless amount of time to make this record."
Gibson says for this artistic process, the studio was built first and the band walked in without any songs.
"We basically created as we went, which is a very different way of doing things."
He says the band members would write a song, play it, work it in with the band and then two days later, begin recording it.
"I feel like everything that's on that record has got that freshness, because it was such a new song and it was so new, bang! it was recorded."
Gibson accepts there were disadvantages to that approach.
"When you have no limit on time you can take a bit longer than you would have and it can drive you a bit crazy, sometimes. But I think it was perfect for this record."
Despite this, Gibson says he doesn't know if they would use the same technique for their next record.
With a single Baby Come On from the forthcoming album out now, the band are focused on their nationwide summer tour, where they will join the feelers and Atlas.
Gibson's advice on how to survive touring: "Just be careful not to party too much, everything else is fine."
The tour will be an opportunity for the band to include several tracks from their latest album and see how audiences respond.
"Fans can expect to hear five or six new songs, so we'll start to get a real sense of how they go down after 15 shows of that.
"So far when we have played a couple of new ones recently they have gone down well."
Gibson feels the album will be quite polarising.
"It's still poppy and melodic in my humble opinion.
"Our first single is quite spectacularly different from the stuff we have done before."
After each album is finished "you get the sense this is the best one we have done", he says.
He describes the third album as a "kinda hybrid of those two [earlier albums] and something else".
Despite the relentless touring, Gibson says he has yet to be bored by the band.
"Sometimes it's hard when you play the same songs that you've played for six years but we find creative new ways to play them and present them."
He wants fans to enjoy their latest album but accepts fans' attitudes toward them change.
"I don't think you can be too worried about who you keep happy."
Time and experience has dampened any idealistic goals the band may have had when they first formed, he says.
"I had dreams of international superstardom, probably not so concerned about that now. The more you get to know about the music industry the more you know how hard it is."
Gibson says the great thing about being young is the huge amount of confidence which comes with it.
"It's great naivety, which I think we had a lot of when we were young and that's probably what got us the record deal in the first place."
Rather than dwell on the negative, Gibson says it's "pretty cool that I've managed to get by, just being a singer in a rock 'n' roll band.
"I know there's been better times in the past, album saleswise and all that, but New Zealand just needs more people. If you put another 3 million people into Auckland, that would be awesome."
- NZPA
Performance
* Who: Elemeno P touring with the feelers and Atlas.
* Where and when: Stampede, Papakura tonight; Mangawhai Tavern, Boxing Day; Papamoa Tavern, Dec 27; Lakes Centre, Taupo, Dec 28; Coroglen Tavern, Coromandel, Jan 2; Waihi Beach Hotel, Jan 3; Poenamo Hotel, Northcote, Jan 4; Brewer's Bar Stadium, Mt Maunganui, Jan 5
