After a promo pause of more than three years, music video maestro Jonathan Glazer returns with an intense shoot 'em up for The Dead Weather. Bullets fly and emotions run high in this week's Hotshot as Jack White and Alison Mosshart go head to head.

The video for Treat Me Like Your Mother, which premiered on US television over the weekend, marks today's official launch of the supergroup's debut album Horehound. Recorded over a three week session in January 2009, the album sees Jack White teaming up with The Kill's Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age / The Raconteurs and Jack Lawrence, also of The Raconteurs.

Glazer's latest promo outing follows his 2006 video Live With Me for Massive Attack, and while the bleak desperation of that film has bled into the new project there's an extra layer of violence to the downfall shown in Treat Me Like Your Mother. Mosshart and White come together in a modern update of the classic pistols at dawn, only this time it's AK47's at sundown, perforating flesh and leather while singing "come on look me in the eye…"

"I'm a big fan of people thinking for themselves," answered Glazer when asked whether he felt the need to explain the video. So just how did the collaboration come about?

"I've been buried for a long period of time in a film project and was gagging for a bit of action. I liked the track. It started throwing up images and impulses quite quickly. I had a chat with Alison Mosshart and the idea kind of came rolling out the back of that phonecall. And I was keen on the idea and I wanted to see it. These projects are quite fragile and it's always a bit touch and go whether they survive the ambient pitfalls. There's always reasons why not to do something. And in this case the balance of energy came down on the side of doing it."

And what about that themes of disaffection and loneliness that runs through so many of his video? Is Glazer conscious of a common thread of people on the edge running through his work? "The artist makes a certain kind of music which inspires a certain kind of feeling. It's not me sitting with a little box of notions thinking I'll retrofit that with that," he explains. "You wouldn't have Jamaroqui sitting in the back of a car on fire. And you wouldn't have Thom Yorke dancing about with a fancy hat on. It's born out of a noise and whatever that noise is suggesting."

Watch the video on shots.net now or catch Treat Me Like Your Mother on Channel 4 tonight at 00.10am.