Video premiere: Escondido's 'Cold October'

• The Nashville duo released their debut album%2C %27The Ghost of Escondido%2C%27 in February
• Director David Lynch has tweeted about his love of Escondido%27s music
• The duo currently are on tour with indie folk band Lord Huron

The two members of Escondido needed only a day to record their debut album, The Ghost of Escondido. So there's no good reason the video for the Nashville duo's new single, Cold October, should have taken any longer.

"We self-release everything, and we're doing this all ourselves, so we pull it off somehow," says Jessica Maros, who formed Escondido with Tyler James in 2011.

The duo got some help for their retro-psychedelic clip, directed by Erik Anders Lang, from a stranger in a '60s-vintage Shelby Mustang Cobra GT 350, who pulled up as they were shooting north of Los Angeles.

"I went up to him and asked if he would mind us shooting his car, and it turned into a day thing," Maros says. "He ended up doing doughnuts in the parking lot and going crazy up the highway. He was eating it all up, and we were just going along with it."

Maros and James met as solo artists in Nashville working on another musician's recording session.

"It started out that I was just going to produce Jessica's solo record," James says. "It quickly became more than that. After being solo artists for a long time, I think we both were ready to be part of something bigger."

Since releasing The Ghost of Escondido in February, the duo have appeared on Conan O'Brien's late-night TBS show and had a cameo on the ABC series Nashville, which also used their song Don't Love Me Too Much. They're currently on tour with indie folk band Lord Huron. But the biggest career boost may have come from film director David Lynch, who tweeted that he loved their song Black Roses.

"We've had a lot of people come to our shows and say, 'I'm here because of that tweet,'" Maros says. He definitely has this following. Maybe we've gained a few of them, which is great."

It's not hard to hear what might have appealed to Lynch: Escondido's reverb-drenched sound occasionally recalls one of the director's favorite composers, Angelo Badalamenti. Or maybe an indie-rock version of a '60s-era Ennio Morricone score.

"A lot of our songs, especially Cold October, have sad, moving-on lyrics, but we wanted the music to have a peppy, fun vibe," James says. "I like having upbeat, fun music that make you feel good with lyrics that have a dark tint to them."