Soft Rock · GenresWhat is soft rock?
Soft rock (also referred to as mellow rock, light rock, or easy rock) is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll (often combined with elements from folk rock and singer-songwriter pop) to compose a softer, more toned-down sound for listening, often at work or when driving. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships.
About soft rock
The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes saxophones.
From Last.fm, where 23,934 listeners have tagged music as soft rock.
Artists to start with
Albums to hear first
Here Comes the Cowboy
Fleetwood Mac
Chemtrails Over the Country Club
...Nothing Like The Sun
Year Of The Cat
Carpenters
Hat Trick
Day/NightSoft Rock songs
- I'm Not in Love by 10cc
- Baby Come Back by Player
- The Subway by Chappell Roan
- Let the Light In (feat. Father John Misty) by Lana Del Rey
- Die with a Smile by Lady Gaga
- The Greatest by Lana Del Rey
- Mariners Apartment Complex by Lana Del Rey
- Happiness is a butterfly by Lana Del Rey
- California by Lana Del Rey
- Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts
Soft Rock on Risocast
Fleetwood MacFleetwood Mac · 1975
Titanic RisingWeyes Blood · 2019
Gotta Get Thru ThisDaniel Bedingfield · 2002
And In The Darkness, Hearts AglowWeyes Blood · 2022
Flowing RiversAndy Gibb · 1977
Shadow DancingAndy Gibb · 1978
Life In A Beautiful LightAmy Macdonald · 2012
Jordan: The ComebackPrefab Sprout · 1990
Dreams - 2004 RemasterFleetwood Mac · 1977
The Chain - 2004 RemasterFleetwood Mac · 1977
Neighbouring genres
In the rock & punk family. All genres
alternative rockrockcrust punkart rockart punkdeathrockindietronicaexperimental rockanarcho-punkglam rockgrungehard rockQuestions
- What is soft rock?
- Soft rock (also referred to as mellow rock, light rock, or easy rock) is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll (often combined with elements from folk rock and singer-songwriter pop) to compose a softer, more toned-down sound for listening, often at work or when driving. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes saxophones.
- Who are the best-known soft rock artists?
- By Last.fm listening: Player, Hall & Oates, Christopher Cross, Bread, America and Rupert Holmes.
- What genres are similar to soft rock?
- On Risocast it sits with alternative rock, rock, crust punk, art rock, art punk and deathrock.
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Updated 6 October 2026
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