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How the list narrowed

180songs to consider
from Last.fm and ListenBrainz, combined
75looked up
the top 75, checked against music databases
75found
found them all
10scored by sound
listened to all 75 · kept the top 10
12438 ms total · already knew 95, listened to 0 more (it remembers, so repeats are fast)

The pickstop 10, best sound matches first

Showing the results with the mood: 5 songs reordered, 5 new.
Your mood

melancholic, late-night driving

This nudges the picks toward your mood. It’s a gentle lean, not a hard filter. Sound still matters most, but a strong mood match can shuffle the top of the list around. The badges show how far each song moved compared to no mood at all.

1

Red Eyes

The War on Drugs

scored by sound
mood match

Retrieved purely by sonic and vibe similarity, with a strong audio match (0.756) to Midnight City and the highest vibe alignment among retrieved tracks — its sound closely fits the melancholic, late-night driving feel you asked for.

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2

Steve McQueen

M83

scored by sound
Last.fm

Same artist as the seed and the highest audio similarity of all candidates (0.883), plus last.fm listeners consistently pair it with Midnight City — the strongest overall match here.

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3

Trying to Be Cool

Phoenix

scored by sound
Last.fm

A strong audio similarity (0.82) combined with last.fm co-listening data makes this a confident cultural and sonic companion to Midnight City.

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4

Houdini

Foster the People

scored by sound
ListenBrainz

Surfaced by listenbrainz listener overlap and carries a solid audio similarity (0.778), suggesting fans of Midnight City regularly gravitate toward this track.

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5

Sweet Disposition

The Temper Trap

scored by sound
ListenBrainz

Matches Midnight City's audio profile closely (0.778) and appears alongside it in listenbrainz listening data, pointing to a reliable sonic and cultural connection.

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6

Selfless

The Strokes

scored by sound
mood match

Retrieved by vibe/acoustic similarity with no cultural co-listening signal; its relatively modest audio similarity (0.664) is offset by the strongest vibe-text alignment among the non-vibe-lane tracks (0.361), suggesting it fits the melancholic late-night mood even if the sonic overlap is more moderate.

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7

1901

Phoenix

scored by sound
ListenBrainz

Backed by listenbrainz listener data and a reasonable audio similarity (0.73), this Phoenix track shares enough sonic ground with Midnight City to be a credible recommendation.

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8

Tongue Tied

Grouplove

scored by sound
ListenBrainz

A good audio similarity (0.808) and listenbrainz co-listening signal both support this pick as a sonically close companion to Midnight City.

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9

Into The Galaxy

Midnight Juggernauts

scored by sound
Last.fm

Last.fm listeners link this to Midnight City, and while the audio similarity is moderate (0.697), the vibe-text score (0.29) offers some additional support for the late-night atmosphere.

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10

Can I Call You Tonight?

Dayglow

scored by sound
mood match

Retrieved by vibe/acoustic similarity with no cultural overlap; the audio similarity is the lowest in the set (0.586), but it has the strongest vibe-text alignment overall (0.399), suggesting it resonates with the melancholic late-night driving mood even if it diverges sonically from the seed.

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What ran, what didn’t

Listened to your song
yes
Crowd-only picks
0
Write-ups
yes
Any sources down
none

About this snapshot

saved
build
13bf027 (work in progress)
audio model
laion/larger_clap_music_and_speech+mean
blend
70% sound · 30% mood