Florence + the Machine · Lungs

My Boy Builds Coffins

My Boy Builds Coffins is in A minor at 122 beats per minute.

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Tempo

122 BPM · Allegromedian of 179 analyses · 122–122 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
179people who ran the extractor
One beat
491.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.56dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.904Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.22Essentia'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

179 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 179 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 122 BPM one beat lasts 491.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 123 ms and a dotted eighth 368.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61 BPM, counted twice as fast 244. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.56 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 0.904 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 122 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41967.20.51
Half note2983.61.02
Dotted quarter1.5737.71.36
Quarter note (one beat)1491.82.03
Quarter triplet0.667327.93.05
Dotted eighth0.75368.92.71
Eighth note0.5245.94.07
Eighth triplet0.333163.96.1
Dotted sixteenth0.375184.45.42
Sixteenth note0.251238.13
Sixteenth triplet0.1678212.2
Thirty-second note0.12561.516.27

Half time 61 BPM · double time 244 BPM. Every row is one beat (491.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. You Don’t Fool MeQueenA minor122BPM
  2. Achy Breaky HeartBilly Ray CyrusA minor122BPM
  3. Shame on the NightDioA minor122BPM
  4. Be PreparedJeremy Irons with Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim CummingsA minor122BPM
  5. Conceal, Don’t FeelTim DaviesA minor123BPM
  6. Eye of the BeholderMetallicaA minor123BPM
  7. Roadhouse BluesThe DoorsA minor121BPM
  8. Savoy TruffleThe BeatlesA minor121BPM
  9. What Is This Thing Called Love?Frank SinatraA minor123BPM
  10. ÆnemaToolA minor121BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 122 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 122 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMFlorence + the Machine

MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1c92738c-2fd8-4c4e-8a50-2dfb08512f72.