“Favorite” by Fontaines D.C.

"Favourite" closes Romance, Fontaines D.C.'s fourth album, and went out as its second single on 18 June 2024. It began two years earlier as a chord progression guitarist Carlos O'Connell played for Grian Chatten while the band were making Skinty Fia, and Chatten, who wrote it, named the La's "There She Goes" and the Only Ones' "Another Girl, Another Planet" as its guiding lights. That tells you the bittersweet rush it's after.

Chatten hears it as a loop with no end, spinning from euphoria to sadness and back, which is why it sits last: like Joyce's Finnegans Wake, it's built to close the album and start it over. The band first played it live at a surprise show at New York's Warsaw on 8 May 2024, opening the Romance era before a sold-out 1,000, Alex Turner among them.

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