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10 songs that feel like An Eagle In Your Mind

Matched to An Eagle In Your Mind by Boards of Canada on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

An Eagle In Your Mind
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An Eagle In Your Mind
Boards of Canada
safe 18/100 intensity 80 BPM
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Baby's Arms — Kurt Vile safe 85 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same dreamy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (18/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (85 BPM).

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Coney Island Baby — Lou Reed safe 80 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (18/100). Same smooth texture.

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Chelsea Hotel #2 — Leonard Cohen moderate 76 BPM

Keeps the same nostalgic pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (18/100). Measured 99% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (76 BPM).

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Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino — Arctic Monkeys safe 85 BPM

Measures 93% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (13/100). Same smooth texture.

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Mermaids — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds safe 80 BPM

A 93% feel-match — carries the same dreamy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (16/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (80 BPM).

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May It Be — Enya safe 80 BPM

93% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (16/100). Same smooth texture.

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Zeitgeist — Black Sabbath safe 80 BPM

Keeps the same dreamy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (16/100). Measured 93% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (80 BPM).

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White Gloves — Khruangbin safe 85 BPM

Measures 93% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (16/100). Same smooth texture.

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Walkin on a Pretty Daze — Kurt Vile safe 85 BPM

A 93% feel-match — carries the same dreamy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (16/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (85 BPM).

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Spinning Song — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds safe 70 BPM

93% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (15/100). Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “An Eagle In Your Mind” by Boards of Canada?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Baby's Arms” by Kurt Vile, “Coney Island Baby” by Lou Reed, “Chelsea Hotel #2” by Leonard Cohen — the top match scores 99% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “An Eagle In Your Mind”?

It measures 18/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 4/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and spoken word. Tempo is 80 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This sits near the calm end of everything we've measured — gentler than 92% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 18/100 comes from a dynamic range of 4/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and spoken word. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is an unusually steady, even volume: more extreme on that axis than 97% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep8/10
Focus8/10
Workout1/10
Dinner7/10
Party / hype1/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1998 in context

The 339 songs we’ve measured from 1998 average a dynamic range of 6.3/10. At 4/10, this track is gentler and steadier than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity18
Dynamics33
Tempo22
Surprise0
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force40
Trigger load13

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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