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10 songs that feel like English House

Matched to English House by Fleet Foxes on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

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English House
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safe 42/100 intensity 72 BPM
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Campus — Vampire Weekend safe 92 BPM

A 94% feel-match — carries the same warm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (44/100).

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Night Shift — Bob Marley & The Wailers moderate 92 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (44/100). Same layered texture.

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The Wayfarer — Bruce Springsteen moderate 72 BPM

Keeps the same nostalgic pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (42/100). Measured 96% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (72 BPM).

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Breathless — Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds moderate 85 BPM

Measures 97% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Same layered texture.

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Down Where the Drunkards Roll — Richard Thompson moderate 85 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same warm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100).

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Hot Buttered Soul — Isaac Hayes moderate 70 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (42/100). Same layered texture.

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Juicy — The Notorious B.I.G. moderate 87 BPM

Keeps the same nostalgic pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Measured 97% alike.

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We and Dem — Bob Marley moderate 75 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (42/100). Same layered texture.

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Concrete Jungle — Bob Marley and the Wailers moderate 76 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same contemplative pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (42/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (76 BPM).

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So Jah Seh — Bob Marley and The Wailers moderate 76 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (42/100). Same layered texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “English House” by Fleet Foxes?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Campus” by Vampire Weekend, “Night Shift” by Bob Marley & The Wailers, “The Wayfarer” by Bruce Springsteen — the top match scores 94% 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 “English House”?

It measures 42/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 6/10, layered texture, mild sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 72 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

On our 19k-song scale this lands in the middle band — more energetic than 38% of songs, calmer than the other 62%. Its intensity reading of 42/100 comes from a dynamic range of 6/10, layered texture, mild shifts, and dynamic vocals. It shares this stretch of the spectrum with thousands of other tracks, so the finer fingerprint below is what really separates it.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is a slow, unhurried pace: more extreme on that axis than 90% 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

Sleep4/10
Focus8/10
Workout3/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype3/10

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

2008 in context

The 259 songs we’ve measured from 2008 average a dynamic range of 6.4/10. At 6/10, this track is right in line with its year.

Mixes smoothly with

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

The fingerprint

Intensity42
Dynamics56
Tempo18
Surprise25
Density33
Predictability0
Vocal force75
Trigger load25

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

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