Songs Like Midnight City by M83
By Dan Cohen · Published 2026-09-05
Three records in our catalogue return exactly the same three headline figures: intensity 52, dynamic range 7, 105 BPM. One is Midnight City. The other two are a Radiohead album track and an Adele single.
The identical three
- Weird Fishes — Radiohead. Intensity 52, dynamic range 7, 105 BPM. Identical, and it shares the seed’s dreamy tag.
- Rolling in the Deep — Adele. Intensity 52, dynamic range 7, 105 BPM. Identical, sharing energetic.
Nobody would shelve these together. All three are mid-weight records that move at a walking-to-brisk pace and travel a moderate distance between quiet and loud — which is, physically, what they have in common and what our columns are built to notice.
The wider band
- So Real — Jeff Buckley. Intensity 52, dynamic range 8, 80 BPM, moderate shifts — wider and more volatile than the seed.
- Damage Gets Done — Hozier. Intensity 52, dynamic range 7, 110 BPM, sharing nostalgic.
- Adore You — Harry Styles. Intensity 51, dynamic range 7, 101 BPM.
- Sweet Dreams — Beyoncé. Intensity 53, dynamic range 7, 122 BPM, also dreamy.
- Mardy Bum — Arctic Monkeys. Intensity 52, dynamic range 6, 185 BPM — nearly twice the seed’s tempo at the same measured weight.
Midnight City appears on M83’s 2011 album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. 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.