Songs Like How to Disappear Completely
By Dan Cohen · Published 2026-09-05
There is one exact twin for How to Disappear Completely in our catalogue, and it is not by a guitar band. Radiohead’s reading is intensity 40, dynamic range 7, 70 BPM, layered, soft vocals, mild shifts, tagged dreamy, introspective, melancholy.
The exact match
Teardrop by Massive Attack returns intensity 40, dynamic range 7 and 70 BPM — the same three figures — and shares the melancholy tag. Two records from the same few years, one built from guitars and orchestra and one from a drum loop, arriving at the same place. We have written separately about what sits around Teardrop.
The rest of the band
- Glittering Blackness — Explosions in the Sky. Intensity 40, dynamic range 7, 85 BPM, instrumental. Same intensity and range, sharing dreamy.
- Kiara — Bonobo. Intensity 42, dynamic range 7, 90 BPM, sharing dreamy and introspective.
- Karmacoma — Massive Attack. Intensity 40, dynamic range 6, 80 BPM, spoken word.
- Past Life — Tame Impala. Intensity 40, dynamic range 6, 117 BPM, also spoken word.
- What’s Going On — Marvin Gaye. Intensity 38, dynamic range 6, 90 BPM.
- God’s Plan — Drake. Intensity 40, dynamic range 6, 77 BPM.
- Gold Rush — Taylor Swift. Intensity 39, dynamic range 6, 100 BPM.
Only the seed, Teardrop and the Explosions in the Sky track reach a dynamic range of 7 here. If the thing you want is the long swell rather than the hush, start with those three.
How to Disappear Completely appears on Radiohead’s 2000 album Kid A. Figures are our own measurements, read from the public API at build time. The genre and era spread is a consequence of measuring sound rather than style — it is not a claim that these artists resemble each other in any other way. No lyrics are reproduced.