Birmingham outfit Editors, whose third album This Light and On This Evening was released in this month, have revealed they weren’t so sure at first about being included in the soundtrack to the upcoming film New Moon, the second instalment in the Twilight vampire series.

According to frontman Tom Smith, their reworked version of track of “No Sound But The Wind” ended up on the upcoming compilation only after director Chris Weitz made a personal plea to the band.

“The films aren’t aimed at people our age but I look at the bands that we’re next to on that soundtrack and it’s just a good thing,” Smith says, Editors appearing alongside acts such as Muse, Thom Yorke and The Killers. “It’s just being part of something that, to me, as collective seems like a pretty attractive thing.”

Turns out that the filmmaker personally emailed the band, asking for their involvement. Smith says the lyrics to the song were actually inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel, The Road.

“At first, I was like, there’s no way,” Smith revealed. “But I went back and I thought about the lyrics and I recorded it slightly differently and I actually think the lyrics flow better now than they ever did and it will now be on the film.”

The Twilight Saga: New Moon is due to be released in on Friday 20 November.