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10 songs that feel like The Stars Keep On Calling My Name

Matched to The Stars Keep On Calling My Name by Mac DeMarco 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 Stars Keep On Calling My Name
Mac DeMarco
safe 35/100 intensity 90 BPM
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Almost Home — Moby safe 90 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same calm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (35/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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Canto — Young Marble Giants moderate 100 BPM

98% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (36/100). Same layered texture.

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Sundowner — Kevin Morby moderate 80 BPM

Keeps the same calm pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (34/100). Measured 98% alike.

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Venus — Air safe 90 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (35/100). Same layered texture.

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How Does It Make You Feel — Air safe 90 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same calm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (35/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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Old Skin — Olafur Arnalds safe 70 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (33/100). Same layered texture.

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A and E — Goldfrapp moderate 90 BPM

Keeps the same calm pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Measured 96% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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Soya — Ali Farka Toure moderate 90 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Same layered texture.

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Midnight Rider — Allman Brothers Band moderate 90 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same calm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (90 BPM).

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Human Nature — Miles Davis moderate 90 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Same layered texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “The Stars Keep On Calling My Name” by Mac DeMarco?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Almost Home” by Moby, “Canto” by Young Marble Giants, “Sundowner” by Kevin Morby — 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 “The Stars Keep On Calling My Name”?

It measures 35/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 5/10, layered texture, mild sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Tempo is 90 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 23% of songs, calmer than the other 77%. Its intensity reading of 35/100 comes from a dynamic range of 5/10, layered texture, mild 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 an unusually steady, even volume: more extreme on that axis than 88% 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
Workout2/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype2/10

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 5/10, 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

Intensity35
Dynamics44
Tempo28
Surprise25
Density33
Predictability50
Vocal force25
Trigger load25

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

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