VIDEO PREMIERE: Handsome Ghost Deliver Enchanting Indie Folk with “Call Me When You’re Pulling Up”

Handsome Ghost embodies the shared spirit of two separate souls.

Tim Noyes [singer, songwriter] and Eddie Byun [multi-instrumentalist, producer] commune in a creative call-and-response, answering each other’s personal and musical confessions, thoughts, and questions sonically. Underpinned by these two perspectives, the music tempers otherworldly production with organic performances, rustic instrumentation with raw production, and nostalgic warmth with future-facing wonder. After amassing tens of millions of streams and receiving widespread acclaim from American Songwriter, Culture Collide, TALKHOUSE, Variance, and more, the Massachusetts duo continue to explore the intricacies of their artistic bond and friendship on their third full-length offering and Nettwerk Music Group debut.

Today Glide is excited to premiere the video for the standout track “Call Me When You’re Pulling Up,” in which dreamy guitar entwines with delicate vocals and a steady beat. The song resonates with a kind of early aughts indie folk-rock sound that finds the band layering in soft poppy vocals to make for a song that is brimming with energy. The song culminates with the plea, “Come pick me up, drive me around, I want to feel something again, so tell me you’ll be here now’.” This is sang in a way that is enchanting and catchy with stunning harmonies, staying with you long after listening. Fans of acts like Death Cab for Cutie and Broken Social Scene will find plenty to love here. Of course, the video captures this with its oddly fun imagery.

The band describes the inspiration behind the track:

“‘Call Me When You’re Pulling Up’ is a song about being down and out – about looking around and realizing that you don’t really recognize where, or who, you are anymore. And it’s a plea to the one person who you think can pull you out of it all and bring you back to what you were before, back when everything was different. There’s a desperation to the whole thing but I wouldn’t say it’s entirely full of defeat. There’s still an element of hope within the song – that things will get better, in time.”

Director Nick Noyes adds his take:

“To me the video is taking a large idea of the dangers of social media and boiling it down to its simplest form, a tongue-in-cheek horror movie with a phone as the villain. The video explores the ‘insta vs reality’ and the role technology has on our lives through a campy lens. The protagonist (played by the fantastic Jessica Morgan) can never quite get away from the phone as it filters and changes her look while forcing her to perform for the camera.”

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