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10 songs that feel like The Last Dawn

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

The song you love
The Last Dawn
Mono
moderate 45/100 intensity 100 BPM
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Soledad — Astor Piazzolla moderate 90 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (40/100).

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Step Back — Dirty Three moderate 90 BPM

95% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (40/100). Same layered texture.

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Adios Nonino — Astor Piazzolla moderate 120 BPM

Keeps the same melancholy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Measured 94% alike.

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Last Horse on the Sand — Dirty Three moderate 80 BPM

Measures 94% the same. It sits a little calmer at 39/100. Same layered texture.

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Some Summers They Drop Like Flies — Dirty Three moderate 80 BPM

A 94% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and sits a little calmer at 39/100.

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You Greet Her Ghost — Dirty Three moderate 80 BPM

94% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 39/100. Same layered texture.

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Vuelvo al Sur — Astor Piazzolla moderate 90 BPM

Keeps the same melancholy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (40/100). Measured 94% alike.

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Milonga del Angel — Astor Piazzolla moderate 100 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (41/100). Same layered texture.

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Le Tombeau de Couperin — Maurice Ravel moderate 100 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same introspective pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (45/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (100 BPM).

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Blues Etude — Oscar Peterson moderate 120 BPM

93% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Same layered texture.

…and if you want it calmer

Same feeling, measured gentler — for when The Last Dawn is more than you want right now.

If I Were a Boy by Beyoncé
If I Were a Boy — Beyoncé safe 92 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but nothing in it lurches or startles. Intensity 28/100, down from 45. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Male Fantasy by Billie Eilish
Male Fantasy — Billie Eilish safe 90 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 8, so it lands at 26/100 — the pull without the edge. Nearly the same tempo, too.

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Man of the World — Fleetwood Mac safe 85 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 8. Reads 16/100.

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Dumb — Nirvana safe 110 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 8. 19/100, versus the original's 45. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Condor Ave by Elliott Smith
Condor Ave — Elliott Smith safe 85 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 3 where the original climbs to 8. Intensity 13/100, down from 45.

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The White Lady Loves You More — Elliott Smith safe 110 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 8, so it lands at 19/100 — the pull without the edge. Nearly the same tempo, too.

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Alameda — Elliott Smith safe 110 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 4 where the original climbs to 8. Reads 24/100. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Blowin' in the Wind by Bob Dylan
Blowin' in the Wind — Bob Dylan safe 80 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 3 where the original climbs to 8. 12/100, versus the original's 45.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “The Last Dawn” by Mono?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Soledad” by Astor Piazzolla, “Step Back” by Dirty Three, “Adios Nonino” by Astor Piazzolla — 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.

What songs are like “The Last Dawn” but calmer?

“If I Were a Boy” by Beyoncé, “Male Fantasy” by Billie Eilish, “Man of the World” by Fleetwood Mac keep a similar feel while measuring gentler — lower dynamic swing, fewer sudden shifts, or a calmer overall level.

How intense is “The Last Dawn”?

It measures 45/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 8/10, layered texture, mild sudden shifts, and instrumental. Tempo is 100 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 42% of songs, calmer than the other 58%. Its intensity reading of 45/100 comes from a dynamic range of 8/10, layered texture, mild shifts, and instrumental. 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 huge quiet-to-loud swing: more extreme on that axis than 80% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on near-total stillness — steady volume, no surprises, a slow and unhurried pulse — 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

Sleep5/10
Focus9/10
Workout3/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype3/10

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

2014 in context

The 313 songs we’ve measured from 2014 average a dynamic range of 6.4/10. At 8/10, this track is louder and more dynamic than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

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

The fingerprint

Intensity45
Dynamics78
Tempo33
Surprise25
Density33
Predictability50
Vocal force0
Trigger load13

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

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