{"id":11610,"date":"2012-07-26T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2012-07-26T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:49:06","slug":"new-song-and-entrancing-official-video-cocorosies-we-are-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-07\/new-song-and-entrancing-official-video-cocorosies-we-are-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"New Song and Entrancing Official Video: CocoRosie&#8217;s &#8220;We Are On Fire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The captivating <strong>CocoRosie<\/strong> have released a new 7-inch recording featuring new song, <em><strong>We Are On Fire<\/strong><\/em>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchandgorecords.com\/bands\/album.php?id=497\"><strong>Touch and Go Records<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been intermittently enthralled by the music of these sisters (<strong>Bianca &#8220;Coco&#8221;<\/strong> and <strong>Sierra &#8220;Rosie&#8221; Casady<\/strong>) ever since we heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-04\/make-a-believer-out-of-me\/\">their harrowing cover of <strong>Damien Jurado&#8217;s<\/strong> song,<em><strong> Ohio<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which they contributed to the <strong>2005 Believer Magazine music issue <\/strong>(this year&#8217;s music issue should arrive any day now on newsstands&#8211;they still have those, right?).<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the new 7-inch,<strong> CocoRosie<\/strong> recently released the<strong> official video<\/strong> for <em><strong>We Are On Fire<\/strong><\/em>, which you can check out below.\u00a0 The video is one of the more entrancing music videos we&#8217;ve seen this year.\u00a0 Directed\/produced by <strong>Emma Freeman, Joerg Lassak, <\/strong>and<strong> Leanne Tonkes<\/strong>, we couldn&#8217;t take our eyes off the slow-motion cinematography.\u00a0 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 <strong>Spanish Inquisition burnings on Mallorca in 1691.<\/strong>\u00a0 We love the trip-notic music and repeated chorus: &#8220;<em><strong>I used to have eyes, the colour of sky, now I can see, in the middle of the night<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the official video, check out an extraordinary live performance of the song recently in France.\u00a0 These sisters can sing!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CocoRosie - We Are On Fire\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KwZx-udWuxI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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