Guillemots are a frighteningly prolific band – frontman Fyfe Dangerfield claims he has 60 hours of music in the vaults – which is why decided to put their songwriting skills to the ultimate test: could they write and record an entire track from scratch, on a subject of our choosing, in just 24 hours?

We visited the band in their East London recording studio, gave them a topic – “Seabirds” – and set the stopwatch. 24 hours later, a song emerged, fully-formed and actually rather fantastic.

Based around a thudding electronic drumbeat, Seabirds is, according to Dangerfield, about “youthful idealism”, and features sounds created by such esoteric “instruments” as house-keys, scissors, a length of hoover pipe, a camera-shutter, and, best of all, a copy of Q being flicked though.

You can read the story behind the track in the new issue of Q, but the only place you can hear it is here on Q4music.com.

[Listen to Seabirds]

Video Interview: The Making Of 'Seabirds'

Guillemots second album Red is out now.