After considerably broadening their sound on Waiting for the Sun, the Doors decided to continue pushing the envelope with their next release. Incorporating brass, strings, and even a full orchestra, The Soft Parade is easily the most challenging album in the Doors' catalog--if not the most accomplished. Though the hit Touch Me and other tracks (Shaman's Blues, Wild Child) hearken back to the band's edgier self, the title track is a multipart rock suite that evokes some of the psychedelic era's worst excesses. Robby Krieger's Wishful Sinful serves up some uncharacteristic melancholy, but elsewhere there's a sense that some of the experiments here just might be filler.