CHVRCHES · The Bones of What You Believe
We Sink
We Sink is in D major at 125 beats per minute.
Tempo
125 BPM · Allegromedian of 172 analyses · 124.9–125 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 172people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 480milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 1.93dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.969Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.288Essentia'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
172 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 172 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 125 BPM one beat lasts 480 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120 ms and a dotted eighth 360 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 250. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 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 1.93 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 0.969 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 D major; 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 D major
Each of these differs from D major 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 125 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1920 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 960 | 1.04 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 720 | 1.39 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 480 | 2.08 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 320 | 3.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 360 | 2.78 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 240 | 4.17 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 160 | 6.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 180 | 5.56 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 120 | 8.33 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80 | 12.5 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60 | 16.67 |
Half time 62.5 BPM · double time 250 BPM. Every row is one beat (480 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Owner of a Lonely HeartYesD major125BPM
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- Manos al aireNelly FurtadoD major125BPM
- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I WantThe SmithsD major125BPM
- The Loco-MotionGrand Funk RailroadD major125BPM
- LunaSmashing PumpkinsD major125BPM
- Let’s GrooveEarth, Wind & FireD major126BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 125 BPMD major at 120–129 BPMCHVRCHES
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9530baf4-c640-4d5d-86e2-99d17e708af5.