Watch Porter Robinson’s punchy cover of Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Favourite’ for ‘Like A Version’

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Porter Robinson has covered Fontaines D.C.‘s ‘Favourite’ for triple j’s Like A Version series – check it out below.During his recent run of shows in Australia earlier this month, producer-DJ and now rocker Porter Robinson visited the triple j studio, where he showed love to Ireland’s Fontaines D.C.

and performed a unique cover of their hit song ‘Favourite’, off 2024’s ‘Romance’.While Robinson’s take on ‘Favourite’ stays largely true to the original, it’s played in more of a half-time beat, leaving the song’s original beat to the final segment of the song for a euphoric build.

Robinson’s cover kicks off with a punchier version of the song’s signature riff, which he described as “not nu-metal, but there’s an energy that’s not present in the original”.Check out Porter Robinson’s cover of Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Favourite’ below.Speaking on his choice to cover the track for Like A Version, Robinson said: “’Favourite’ was, no pun intended, one of my favourite songs of the last year.

It was the song that made me a fan of Fontaines D.C. I just love it. I love major-key music. I love music that’s extremely catchy and extremely hooky.