<P> "No Light, No Light" debuted at number sixty - seven on the UK Singles Chart dated 28 January 2012 . It eventually peaked at number fifty for the week ending 3 March 2012 following the band's performance at the 2012 BRIT Awards, selling 6,909 copies . On the Hungarian Airplay Chart, the song debuted at number forty on 6 February 2012 and later peaked at number thirty - six for the week ending 27 February 2012 . On 1 March 2012, "No Light, No Light" debuted at number fifty on the Irish Singles Chart and failed to re-enter the chart . On the ARIA Singles Chart, the song debuted and peaked at number ninety - five for the week commencing 30 January 2012 . On the Belgian Ultratip Singles Chart, the song peaked at number ten on 21 January 2012 . In the US, the song debuted at number thirty - nine on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart . On the chart issue dated 25 April 2012, the song debuted at number forty - eight on the US Billboard Rock Songs chart . </P> <P> An accompanying music video for the song was released on Florence and the Machine's official Vevo account on 18 November 2011 . It was directed by Icelandic duo Arni & Kinski . A teaser was also uploaded on their Vevo account on 15 November 2011 . During an interview with MTV News, Welch revealed some of the stories behind the inspiration of the music video saying, "When (directors Arni and Kinski) pitched it to me, I loved the idea of stained glass...and this falling thing, to do it on a New York skyline was really important to me, and there's some weird stuff with my grandmother about New York that's kind of too dark to go into...The idea of falling from a great height in New York is intense...because my grandmother, she died in New York, and I literally didn't think about it until we were filming and I was like,' This is kind of insane ."' </P> <P> The video begins with Welch lying next to a crystal skull . Several scenes showing a masked and shirtless contortionist sitting on a chair follow and soon after he starts to dance and takes his mask off . The video then moves into a church where a choir consisting of kids (The Trinity Boys Choir) starts singing the song . Welch is then seen atop of a building as the contortionist takes a voodoo doll in his hands . He puts a needle in the doll and Welch falls from the building . She later falls in the church where she's being caught and held by the choir . Welch then ends up in the arms of her love interest, played by actor Torstein Bjorklund . Shots of Welch being chased by the contortionist in a town are interspersed amongst the other elements of the video . </P> <P> Marc Hogan of Spin concluded that the video, "touches on the fine line between spiritual ecstasy and reckless abandon ." Jillian Mapes of Billboard magazine commented that the video is exploring a "territory between Christianity and voodoo spirituality ." Mapes further praised the video for being dramatic, but he wrote that "more than that, it's completely absurd ." A writer of Rolling Stone concluded: "(the video) does not shy away from matching the music's melodramatic intensity . In addition to contrasting overtly Christian iconography with images of some kind of voodoo priest, the harrowing climax is paired with footage of Florence Welch falling from the top of a skyscraper ." Writing for Dose, Leah Collins found "seriously life - threatening juju going on in No Light, No Light (video)" Nick Neyland of Prefix Magazine wrote: "That song (" No Light . No Light ") just got a suitably opulent video, which is full of religious imagery, Florence perched atop a building in Manhattan, and a strange masked figure . What does it all mean? We have no idea, but anyone who's afraid of heights may want to look away when Florence starts flinging herself across that rooftop and ultimately takes to the skies and starts flying (seriously)." Eoin Butler of The Irish Times praised the boys dressed as priests comparing the scenes with a Catholic version of 1976 film Bugsy Malone . </P>

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