Watch/Listen: New Pierces Video/EP

Watch the steamy (in more ways than one) video, below. Firestarter alert.

By Fred Mills

Admittedly, there's a lot of stuff going on in the world right now to distract ya - the civil war in Libya; celebrities on the red carpet at the Oscars; Charlie Sheen having his brain abducted by aliens; the late Ted Kennedy's FBI file disclosing that he rented a whole houseful of Chilean hookers in '61; etc. So we've got something guaranteed to take your mind off all those things: a new digital EP, song and video from that gorgeous sister group The Pierces.

Listen to track: "Love You More"

It's called Love You More (EP, track, video) and it was produced by Guy Berryman from Coldplay, and the tunes are a prelude to a full-length coming later this year, which would be the long, long overdue to 2008's Thirteen Songs of Love and Revenge. Wait'll you see the steamy, twangy, hotpants-in-the-desert video, complete with a brain-melting, neo-Phil Spector arrangement, below: you'll be booking a trip westward in an instant. (Here's hoping those are special effects in the video; is memory serves, burning down a Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) is a no-no, at least in Arizona and Nevada, where it enjoys protected species status.)