David Gilmour Drops Black and White Music Video for 'Faces of Stone' [WATCH]

Trailing the release of the Rattle That Lock album title track, a behind-the-scences video for "Today" and an animated clip for "The Girl in the Yellow Dress," Gilmour has dropped a black and white video for his latest and emotional album track, "Faces of Stone." The latest clip juxtaposes older film footage with shots of the former Pink Floyd guitarist practicing the song in the studio.

The footage shadows a woman as she searches a beach for stones and later ventures into a town nearby. She finds herself at a dinner party where she drags herself across a table--an action that would normally wreck a night in. Instead, her destructive activities go unnoticed. As a powerful Gilmour guitar solo leads the song to its end, the woman is pulled back to the same beach she was once scavenging for stones.

Gilmour took to Facebook to reveal that "Faces of Stone" was penned in memorial of a time in his life when he was constantly bordered by birth and death." Towards the end of my mother's life, when she was suffering from dementia, there was a brief crossover period of about nine months, when she was alive and my daughter was newly born," Gilmour wrote. "This song is a musing on that time. Specifically it refers to a walk in the park where my mother was 'seeing' pictures, or 'faces of stone,' hanging in the trees."

"'Faces of Stone' is a strange one," he also noted in an interview with Mojo. "I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. I wasn't an adoring son by any stretch of the imagination. But there is a sort of element of wanting to make a little peace with various memories I have of her and myself."

Rattle That Lock saw its release in September, Gilmour's first solo release since 2006's On an Island and trailing Pink Floyd's final studio album, sans Roger Waters, The Endless River. The guitarist will kick off his South American tour in December while a North American string of dates will commence on March 24, 2016 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

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