The captivating CocoRosie have released a new 7-inch recording featuring new song, We Are On Fire, on Touch and Go Records.  We’ve been intermittently enthralled by the music of these sisters (Bianca “Coco” and Sierra “Rosie” Casady) ever since we heard their harrowing cover of Damien Jurado’s song, Ohio, which they contributed to the 2005 Believer Magazine music issue (this year’s music issue should arrive any day now on newsstands–they still have those, right?).

In conjunction with the new 7-inch, CocoRosie recently released the official video for We Are On Fire, which you can check out below.  The video is one of the more entrancing music videos we’ve seen this year.  Directed/produced by Emma Freeman, Joerg Lassak, and Leanne Tonkes, we couldn’t take our eyes off the slow-motion cinematography.  Alternately beautiful and disturbing, the video/lyric speak in part to the 1690s and the video incorporates a stake-burning scene that may refer to the Spanish Inquisition burnings on Mallorca in 1691.  We love the trip-notic music and repeated chorus: “I used to have eyes, the colour of sky, now I can see, in the middle of the night.”

After the official video, check out an extraordinary live performance of the song recently in France.  These sisters can sing!