Lyrebirds are makers of music that it is at once romantic, anthemic and full of optimism and Catalyst, for one, is a deeply personal interpretation on the effect of a death in the family of the band’s Manchester-born frontman, Adam Day, and the search for something good to come out of this tragedy. “The time we waste is how we’ll pay”, says he. Musically, LYREBIRDS make pop on a grand scale, shot through with streaks of fraying, decaying glamour and, in Day, they have a frontman with voice and the swagger to carry it off. LYREBIRDS formed 18 months ago when Day, whose family had relocated from Manchester in his youth and who was at that point a solo performer of “acoustic, Leonard Cohen-type stuff”, spotted familiar faces from his Brighton local at a Pogues gig in Brixton. Day recognised kindred spirits in Dane Etteridge (guitar/ keyboard), Sam Baldwin (guitar), Dan Logan (bass) and Jackson (drums), and LYREBIRDS formed soon after. Taking their name from the bird whose song echoes the world around itself - famously seen in a piece of Attenborough film giving a bleak prophecy of it’s own demise - the band quickly gelled and made their live debut with shows at Club NME and in Brighton, where they’ve built a devoted following, before playing at last year’s Hard Rock Calling as part of a bill headlined by Neil Young. That Echo and the Bunnymen were also on the bill was fitting; indeed, LYREBIRDS vast, emotive soundscapes, filled with big, broad strokes of love, loss and hope.