10 songs that feel like Sugar for the Pill
Matched to Sugar for the Pill by Slowdive on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.
A 95% feel-match — carries the same spacious pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (20/100).
92% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it runs a little hotter at 26/100. Same layered texture.
Keeps the same spacious pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (20/100). Measured 88% alike.
Measures 90% the same. It runs a little hotter at 27/100. Same layered texture.
A 89% feel-match — carries the same spacious pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (20/100).
88% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it runs a little hotter at 27/100. Same layered texture.
Keeps the same spacious pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (21/100). Measured 90% alike.
Measures 87% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (17/100).
A 84% feel-match — carries the same spacious pull and sits a little calmer at 13/100.
86% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it runs a little hotter at 27/100. Same layered texture.
Frequently asked
What songs sound like “Sugar for the Pill” by Slowdive?
The closest feel-matches we measure are “Book of Days” by Enya, “Other Voices” by The Cure, “Horizon” by Tycho — 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 “Sugar for the Pill”?
It measures 19/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 4/10, layered texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Tempo is 60 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 91% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 19/100 comes from a dynamic range of 4/10, layered texture, no sudden shifts, and soft 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 100% 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
Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.
2017 in context
The 461 songs we’ve measured from 2017 average a dynamic range of 6.0/10. 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
The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.
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