: rock music that is less driving and gentler sounding than hard rock
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Yacht rock is a term to describe soft rock from the late 1970s and early 1980s.—Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026 With their blissful harmonies and flowery, mystical lyrics, the Texas duo embodied soft rock, ushering in the genre at the dawn of the Seventies with a gentle nudge and a tip of Seals’ signature newsboy cap.—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026 Musician Dash Crofts, one half of the soft rock duo Seals & Crofts, has died.—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026 And here Kgasi was, pulling bone after bone out of the soft rock, ultimately extracting the entire skeleton and a chunk of the skull.—Ari Daniel, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for soft rock