[2][15][16] The artwork for the album was created by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation under the direction of Aubrey Powell, who has worked with Gilmour and Pink Floyd since the late 1960s.

[21] The album was mixed at Astoria and mastering for all formats was performed by James Guthrie and Joel Plante at das boot recording in Lake Tahoe, California.

[23] The lyrics for the track were written by Gilmour's wife and long time collaborator Polly Samson and are based around the themes of Book II of John Milton's Paradise Lost.

On 31 July 2015, a music video for "Rattle That Lock" was released on Gilmour's website and promoted via social media outlets.

The video depicts the fall of Lucifer from the Kingdom of Heaven and his subsequent journey through Pandæmonium, Purgatory and Chaos to corrupt the virgin Earth and become Satan, as told in the epic poem, Paradise Lost.

[26] The album's cover features a landscape photograph by Rupert Truman of StormStudios[27] with painted corvidae escaping a locked cage.

[1] Most of the venues on the European leg of the tour were Roman amphitheatres, similar to the one featured in Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1971).

Gilmour also played two historic venues in London: the Royal Albert Hall and KOKO (formerly the Camden Palace theatre).

[30] Kevin McAlea, who performed with Carin at Kate Bush's Before the Dawn shows in 2014, also played keyboards on the tour[30] in place of Richard Wright.