Songs Like Flume by Bon Iver
By Dan Cohen · Published 2026-09-05
Flume lands at 16 for intensity with a dynamic range of 4 — 75 BPM, smooth, soft-voiced, and entirely free of abrupt change. Its mood tags are introspective, melancholy and — the one that matters here — nostalgic.
Nostalgic is a rare tag, and it changes the list
Plenty of recordings measure this quiet. Far fewer are also tagged nostalgic, and that single tag pulls the match list somewhere specific: toward records that sound like memory rather than like sadness. It is why this page and our page for other very quiet songs share almost nothing.
- No 1 Party Anthem — Arctic Monkeys. Intensity 16, dynamic range 4, 80 BPM. Identical intensity and range, and shares introspective and nostalgic.
- Mr. Schwartz — Arctic Monkeys. Intensity 16, dynamic range 4, 85 BPM.
- Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino — Arctic Monkeys. Intensity 13, dynamic range 3 — flatter and quieter than the seed.
- Pink Matter — Frank Ocean. Intensity 15, dynamic range 4, 64 BPM.
- White Ferrari — Frank Ocean. Intensity 19, dynamic range 4, 120 BPM — far quicker on paper, and still reads this gentle.
- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry — Hank Williams. Intensity 19, dynamic range 5, 75 BPM. A 1949 country record in the same band as a 2007 folk one.
Three of the six are Arctic Monkeys and two are Frank Ocean, which is itself a finding: very few artists make records that measure this quiet and read as nostalgic.
Flume opens Bon Iver’s 2007 album For Emma, Forever Ago. Figures are our own measurements, read from the public API at build time. The genre and era spread is a consequence of measuring sound rather than style — it is not a claim that these artists resemble each other in any other way. No lyrics are reproduced.