Underwater Moonlight

Underwater Moonlight
Studio album by
the Soft Boys
ReleasedJune 1980
RecordedJune 1979 – June 1980
Studio
Genre
Length36:00
LabelArmageddon
Producer
  • Pat Collier
  • Spaceward staff
The Soft Boys chronology
A Can of Bees
(1979) 		Underwater Moonlight
(1980) 		Invisible Hits
(1983)

Underwater Moonlight is the second studio album by English rock band the Soft Boys, released in June 1980 by record label Armageddon. The album received little critical notice and was a commercial failure, and the band split up a few months after its release. However, Underwater Moonlight has retrospectively been viewed as a psychedelic classic, influential on the development of the neo-psychedelia music genre and on a number of bands, especially R.E.M. It is included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[7]

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