I don’t know about you, but when I see Fontaines D.C, I click. While most days there’s something pretty good buried beneath the headline. Today, there is something truly fantastic.
Stripped of its original bombast, the Dublin band’s version dials into the emotional static buried beneath the track. Grian Chatten trades Oli Sykes’ screams for a deadpan drawl. It’s distant but still bruised. Backed by pulsing synths and reverb-drenched guitars, the cover drips with post-punk anxiety, transforming the song’s desperation into something more unsettling.
It’s a bold pick, but it makes sense. Bring Me The Horizon’s original, which first released in 2013 on Sempiternal was a turning point for the band. It introduced both electronics and vulnerability to their sound. Fontaines tap into that same tension, but in this cover though they push it through their own grayscale filter. Think early Interpol covering Nine Inch Nails.
The band also performed ‘Starburster’, the first single from their recent album Romance, which was released August 23. That one hit with more urgency, all spiralling synths and twitchy rhythms, confirming the band’s shift from jagged guitars to a murkier, more electronic space.
What makes this cover work is the total lack of irony. Fontaines don’t approach Bring Me with a wink. Instead, they lean into the drama, the yearning, the existential mess. It’s two very different brands of heaviness meeting in the middle: one rooted in chaos, the other in control.
After all, Fontaines have always played with mood, but here, they weaponise restraint. Their ‘Can You Feel My Heart’ isn’t an explosion, it’s a simmer. It’s less about catharsis and more about being stuck in the feeling, unable to scream it out.
It’s the kind of curveball Like A Version thrives on. A cross-genre swing that doesn’t just pay respect to the original—it reimagines it entirely.
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