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Florence Welch references her tumultuous relationship and heartbreak as she goes topless in stunning new two track music video for Queen of Peace and Long & Lost

Published: 10:29 EST, 29 July 2015 | Updated: 13:31 EST, 29 July 2015

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She has been open about how her on/off relationship heavily influenced her new album.

And now Florence Welch has referenced her heartbreak in a stunning new short film for her LP tracks Queen of Peace and Long & Lost.

The extended music video puts the two songs back to back as the Florence + The Machine singer and the windswept Scottish landscape take centre stage in the haunting visuals.

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Dramatic: Florence + The Machine have released have released an epic new video for their two album tracks Queen of Peace and Long & Lost

The ten minute video is the latest installment of Florence's Odyssey saga created with director Vincent Haycock, who also collaborated with the singer on four other videos from her 2015 album, shooting clips for How Big How Blue How Beautiful, St Jude, What Kind of Man and Ship to Wreck.

Florence and Haycock's latest visual is the most ambitious yet, with the duo and their team decamping to the Scottish isle Easdale for the shoot.

The short film explores several hard-hitting themes including young love, loss of innocence and family strife.

Epic: Shot on the Scottish isle Easdale by Florence Welch's long-term collaborator Vincent Haycock, the short film stars the singer caught up in a love story

Florence stars throughout the video with a young actress who plays a child version of herself.

The track Queen of Peace opens the video with the two Florence's seen on the clifftop as they meet her first love, who's embroiled in a fight.

The saga continues as Florence is seen trying to mediate between her family and her love's as they come to blows before young Florence is seen running away with the boy.

Timeless tale: Florence stars throughout the video with a young actress who plays a child version of herself

Family strife: The couple who feature in the film are forced to run away from home

As a voiceover declares that 'To give yourself over to another body That's all you want really,' older Florence is seen lying topless on a bed next to her lover, before the next track, Long & Lost kicks off.

Haycock explains that the second half of the video was filmed in a single take 'at the very last seconds of light during a stormy barge ride on a freezing sea. The effort and focus on both the actors and crew was so amazing, Florence delivers one of my favorite moments to date and it's one of my proudest technical and narrative accomplishments.'

'We shot in the winter and it was cold, brutal and endlessly inspiring, which I think really helped the story of Florence's struggle with her family, the younger innocence vs. the feuding violence of the men around her, etc,' the director added.

Starring role: Florence appears topless in the video about a tumultuous relationship

Pouring her heart out: The singer is seen trying to mediate between her family and her love's as they come to blows

Snapshot: One scene sees the star at the centre of a tense family photo with her lover

Take two: The second half of the video is set to the track Long & Lost

The film comes after Florence admitted to Billboard ahead of the release of How Big How Blue How Beautiful this year, that her third album was written during a difficult time in her rollercoaster relationship with events organiser James Nesbitt.

'Without the structure of touring, you have to face your own chaos. I was playing gigs non-stop since I was 21,' she said. 'When I was left to my own devices, I realised I was f**king everything up.'

'I was in and out of a relationship, in and out of drinking too much. It was like constantly picking yourself up and then dropping yourself, picking yourself up and dropping yourself. And that was exhausting.'

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What a setting: Director Haycock explains that the final sequence was filmed in a single take 'at the very last seconds of light during a stormy barge ride on a freezing sea'

Welch continued, '[The album is] definitely not about trying to be vindictive. It's about being honest. This could've been a break-up record. But it was much more about trying to understand myself.' She explained, 'I was in this purgatory with this man. That push and pull thing where you are just stuck and you're like, "Why do we keep doing this to each other?'''

The singer, who headlined Glastonbury last month, revealed that her close friend Taylor Swift offered her advice while she was writing the album, telling her that 'you must sing about what's happening in your life'.

Brutal: 'We shot in the winter and it was cold, brutal and endlessly inspiring, which I think really helped the story of Florence's struggle with her family' the director added