When it comes to crafting the perfect set list, Porter Robinson asks himself a couple of questions. “What’s going to be insanely joyous for me to play onstage?” he tells Apple Music. “What if I went as a fan of Porter right now? What would be the ultimate experience?” The answer, for his 2024-25 SMILE! :D Tour, lay in creating “a bit of an Eras Tour,” with Robinson running through most of his third album, SMILE! :D, before moving into 2021’s Nurture, and then his 2014 debut, Worlds. The whole production is “super immersive, experiential, and a lot more virtual,” he promises. “I think this would be a really good first Porter show to go see, to be honest,” he adds. “I think anybody who’s going to see me for the first time, who’s maybe only familiar with one of the albums, will walk away from this show with three or four more new favorites and be like, ‘Oh, my God. I’ve got to go back and listen to that.’” There’s one SMILE :D track that he’s reserving for later: “Russian Roulette,” his favorite from the record, chosen to close out the show. “It’s this three-minute, far-off-the-mic, emo-acoustic buildup that leads into this crazy trance drop at the end,” he says. “I just feel like ending the show with that is going to be this absolute catharsis explosion.”