Black Sun by Death Cab for Cutie Song Details

Death Cab for Cutie's ' "Black Sun" was released on its scheduled release date, March 27, 2015. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The track order of this song in Death Cab for Cutie's "Kintsugi" album is number 2 out of 11. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Black Sun is average in popularity right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Black Sun by Death Cab for Cutie to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 88 BPM, a half-time of 44BPM, and a double-time of 176 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. Activities such as, yoga or pilates, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

D Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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