Arcade Fire · Funeral

Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)

Neighborhood #2 (Laïka) is in B minor at 130.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

131 BPM · Allegromedian of 183 analyses · 130.7–130.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
183people who ran the extractor
One beat
459.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
435.2Hz · -19 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.68dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.914Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.098Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

183 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 183 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 130.7 BPM one beat lasts 459.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.8 ms and a dotted eighth 344.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 261.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.2 Hz, which is 19 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.68 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.914 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in B minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with B minor

Each of these differs from B minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 131 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41836.30.54
Half note2918.11.09
Dotted quarter1.5688.61.45
Quarter note (one beat)1459.12.18
Quarter triplet0.6673063.27
Dotted eighth0.75344.32.9
Eighth note0.5229.54.36
Eighth triplet0.3331536.54
Dotted sixteenth0.375172.15.81
Sixteenth note0.25114.88.71
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.513.07
Thirty-second note0.12557.417.43

Half time 65.4 BPM · double time 261.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (459.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. A Saucerful of SecretsPink FloydB minor130BPM
  2. Let It Will BeMadonnaB minor130BPM
  3. Horse LatitudesThe DoorsB minor130BPM
  4. We’re Going WrongCreamB minor132BPM
  5. No Money No LoveDavid Guetta & Showtek feat. Elliphant & Ms. DynamiteB minor132BPM
  6. Hello AgainThe CarsB minor129BPM
  7. Gangnam Style (강남스타일)PSYB minor132BPM
  8. Turn It On AgainGenesisB minor129BPM
  9. Killing Yourself to LiveBlack SabbathB minor129BPM
  10. HeartbeatAnnieB minor128BPM

Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B minorAll songs at 131 BPMB minor at 130–139 BPMArcade Fire

MusicBrainz collapses 29 recording ids into this one. Recording id c05048f1-47f6-4532-8d98-75ca80fa1792.