Wilco guitarist and jazz stalwart Nels Cline will release new album Currents, Constellations with his new quartet the Nels Cline 4—which features guitarist Julian Lage, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Tom Rainey—on April 13, and today the group shared a new track from the effort, “Swing Ghost ’59.”

The single’s accompanying video, which premiered over at Stereogum, shows Cline and company recording the tune live in the studio, working their way through the song’s various sections, from angular riff to swinging jazz and more.

“Its whimsical premise is the eventual demise of ‘swing’ time in popular music as ‘straight’ time became the order of the day,” Cline tells Stereogum. “Each time swing is assayed in the piece it is overtaken — if not out-and-out demolished — by straight time. After the initial swing line and its first demise, after the fleet unison and hocketed guitar parts, bassist Scott Colley is featured, ushering in an open and collective improvisation that gives way to an improvised duet between Julian and me. The re-emergence of swing (in an intentionally cliché manner) only leads to another defeat as a the power riff of ‘straight’ time bludgeons swing before fading into the musical sunset.”

Listen and watch in the video below, via Stereogum.