Songs Similar to Skinny Love by Bon Iver
Album: For Emma, Forever Ago · Indie · Sad
Bon Iver's “Skinny Love” from the album For Emma, Forever Ago is a indie track with alternative roots that we file under sad songs. If it's the one you keep replaying, the list below collects tracks that fans of it also play; the original moves at roughly 155 BPM.
The closest match right now is “Flume” by Bon Iver (100% match). The list also pulls in The Lumineers, José González, Bright Eyes and Sufjan Stevens — artists whose audiences overlap heavily with Bon Iver's. All of the tagged tracks are alternative, so the list stays close to home. Each entry shows its genre and a match score, so you can start with the strongest matches and work outward. Every song links out to YouTube, Spotify and Amazon Music for a quick listen, and the ones marked as links have their own similar-song pages here.
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Data: Last.fm, updated 2026-10-11.
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FAQ about “Skinny Love”
What songs are similar to Skinny Love?
On our list, the closest matches are “Flume” by Bon Iver, “Lump Sum” by Bon Iver and “Big Black Car” by Gregory Alan Isakov. All 20 songs on this page are ranked by how strongly their listeners overlap with fans of “Skinny Love” by Bon Iver, so the higher a song sits, the closer it is to the original's sound and audience.
Who does Skinny Love sound like?
Based on listening data, “Skinny Love” sits closest to Gregory Alan Isakov, The Lumineers, José González and Bright Eyes. Fans of Bon Iver play these artists more than almost anyone else, which usually means a shared sound, era or scene. Start with their tracks in the list above if you want something in the same vein.
Is Skinny Love Indie?
We file “Skinny Love” by Bon Iver under Indie, while music stores list its album under Alternative. Genre labels are fuzzy, so the similar songs above aren't limited to one genre — they follow what listeners actually pair with the song.
How do you find similar songs to Skinny Love?
Use the list on this page: it ranks 20 tracks by how often fans of “Skinny Love” also listen to them. Open any song that has its own page to keep exploring, or enter another track in the similar song finder to start a new list.