Flume’s BFF and Australian music’s current bearded heartthrob, Chet Faker, is the latest to provide our weekly Friday morning music ritual, otherwise known as Triple J’s ‘Like A Version’.
This week Faker woke the youth of Australia up with another cover in the vein of his breakout ‘No Diggity’; this time via an ace nostalgia-powered 90s delight: Sonia Dada’s ‘(Lover) You Don’t Treat Me No Good’.
As fans would no doubt remember, Faker found blogosphere powered fame and Superbowl infamy by making Blackstreet’s ‘No Diggity’ his own and it’s fair to say he might have done the same here.
His nectarous vocals perfectly suit the repetition of the Sonia Dada single; there’s something so sweet about waking up to the Faker (aka Nicholas James Murphy) singing “lover lover you don’t treat me no good no more” with added backing from a choir of friends dubbed “the other guys”.
Rather than providing a clue – as is custom for ‘Like A Version’ participants – Murphy’s choral “disciples”, as he initially labelled them, proceeded to enter the Triple J studios and greet Breakfast fill-in hosts Veronica Lewis and Lewis Hobba. Rather than the cover just being another acoustic rendition, their backing vocals provided the track with some ammunition to increase the already honeyed vocals of Murphy.
The cover is yet another treat for fans of Chet Faker, who has one date left on his Australian tour supporting his much lauded debut album, Built On Glass, released in April and debuting at #1 on the ARIA Album Charts. He’s also set to co-headline the Listen Out 2014 festival in September/October.
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Nicholas James Murphy isn’t the first to provide Triple J with a noteworthy ‘Like A Version’ cover in 2014. We’ve already heard some brilliant interpretations, including The Smith Street Band’s take on Courtney Barnett, Karnivool’s London Grammar makeover and Arctic Monkeys’ Tame Impala transformation. Meanwhile Dead Letter Circus also set tongues wagging with their acoustic re-imagining of the Rage Against The Machine classic ‘Killing In The Name Of’, even penning an open letter dealing with the backlash from haters.
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Before the Sonia Dada cover, Murphy also delivered a beautiful keys-led rendition of album cut ‘Talk Is Cheap’, which you can listen to below.
