"No Sound But the Wind" is a song by British

United Kingdom

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 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band Editors

Editors

Editors are a British indie rock band based in Birmingham, who formed in 2002. Previously known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, the band consists of Tom Smith , Chris Urbanowicz , Russell Leetch and Ed Lay .Editors have so far released two platinum studio...

, and is featured on The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack. The song was first played at the Glastonbury festival 2008 and has gone through many changes; the Twilight soundtrack version features several new lyrics.

Tom Smith

Tom Smith (musician)

Thomas Michael Henry Smith is an English musician. He is lead singer, lyricist, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for the Birmingham-based indie rock band Editors....

 has revealed that he was inspired to write the song after reading Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road...

's novel The Road

The Road

The Road is a 2006 novel by the American author Cormac McCarthy.The Road may also refer to:* The Road , a 2001 Kazakhstani film* The Road , a 2009 film adaptation of the McCarthy novel...

and the song has soon become established as part of Editors' live shows and a fan favourite.

The song was released as a single in 2010. The single version of the song was a live performance from the Belgian festival Rock Werchter

Rock Werchter

Rock Werchter is a Belgian annual music festival held in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, since 1974. It is one of the five biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe...

 and it managed to climb to number 1 in Belgium, making it Editors' second chart-topping hit in Belgium (the first being "Papillon

Papillon (song)

"Papillon" is a song by British post-punk revival band Editors and is featured on their 2009 album, In This Light and on This Evening.The music video for "Papillon" was directed by Andrew Douglas.-Track listings:7"#"Papillon " – 3:55...

"). On 18 December 2010, the single received golden record-status after a live concert at Het Glazen Huis in Antwerp from Studio Brussels.

The music video for the song is the live performance from Rock Werchter 2010

Rock Werchter 2010

Rock Werchter 2010 ran from July 1 until July 4, 2010 at the Rock Werchter site in the Belgian village of Werchter.-Day 1: Thursday, July 1:-Day 2: Friday, July 2:-Day 3: Saturday, July 3:-Day 4: Sunday, July 4:...

. Despite the singles' success in Belgium, it was not released or made available in the United Kingdom.

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	72
Belgian Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...	1