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10 songs that feel like Into the Woods

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

Into the Woods
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Into the Woods
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safe 29/100 intensity 95 BPM
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River — Enya safe 85 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (28/100).

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Ike's Mood I — Isaac Hayes safe 80 BPM

97% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (28/100). Same smooth texture.

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Stairway to Heaven — Rockabye Baby safe 70 BPM

Keeps the same serene pull — sits a little calmer at 19/100. Measured 90% alike.

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Weissensee — Neu! safe 135 BPM

Measures 89% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (25/100). Same smooth texture.

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Sapphire — Bonobo safe 90 BPM

A 88% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and sits a little calmer at 21/100. Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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Animals — Bonobo safe 88 BPM

87% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 15/100. Same smooth texture.

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The Sound of Water — Pat Metheny safe 85 BPM

Keeps the same serene pull — sits a little calmer at 14/100. Measured 87% alike.

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Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042 — Johann Sebastian Bach safe 110 BPM

Measures 97% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (30/100). Same smooth texture.

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Day by Day — Bonobo safe 95 BPM

A 91% feel-match — carries the same serene pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (31/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (95 BPM).

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Es war einmal — Cluster safe 85 BPM

86% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 14/100. Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Into the Woods” by Tycho?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “River” by Enya, “Ike's Mood I” by Isaac Hayes, “Stairway to Heaven” by Rockabye Baby — the top match scores 95% 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 “Into the Woods”?

It measures 29/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, mild sudden shifts, and instrumental. Tempo is 95 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 81% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 29/100 comes from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, mild shifts, and instrumental. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is deep calm: more extreme on that axis than 81% 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

Sleep7/10
Focus10/10
Workout1/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype2/10

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

2019 in context

The 448 songs we’ve measured from 2019 average a dynamic range of 6.1/10. 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

Intensity29
Dynamics56
Tempo31
Surprise25
Density0
Predictability0
Vocal force0
Trigger load0

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

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