At some point, someone will have said “quiet is the new loud”. Can something be the new anything though, when it is at once quiet and loud?

That is a question thrown up by Lanterns On The Lake, a Geordie quintet that manage to simultaneously create a sense of melancholic intimacy and epic vastness, like a breaking dawn.

Hazel Wilde’s voice was an unsurprising focal point of the band’s set, but her between-song banter provided some unexpected humour that can often be forgotten when watching a band which creates such tender music.

The band’s musical palette was filled with an array of colours, as Paul Gregory darted around the stage, dancing like a tap dancer over his guitar pedals, while he forged a wash of bowed chords and controlled attack.

It is the contrast that is perhaps the band’s biggest appeal. Songs such as Another Tale From Another English Town and I Love You, Sleepyhead weaved effortlessly from gentle beginnings to raucous climaxes, as numerous members took up beaters to batter out the closing rhythm.

For the sake of pigeon-holing, you could suggest Lanterns On The Lake sit somewhere between The Sundays and Sigur Rós. But on their showing at The Haunt, they clearly hold their own identity aloft with pride.