: 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 Unlike the refined soft rock of Music and Dreams, these collections feel more immediate in their unpolished forms.—David Harris, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for soft rock