Elvis Costello Gets Really Weird for New B-Side

Elvis Costello has released a track that he says is the B-side of his recent single “We Are All Cowards Now” — and it’s definitely one of the strangest songs in his entire catalog.

“Phonographic Memory” is a spoken-word piece over an acoustic guitar that imagines a post-war ceremony involving an archive recording of the voice of Orson Welles and someone identified as “President Swift.” Check out the track on YouTube now.

Costello’s new album Hey Clockface, which doesn’t contain “Phonographic Memory,” is due out October 30th.