A Soap Bubble and Inertia is the debut album by Canadian alternative rock band The Gandharvas.

It was released in 1994 on the Thermometer Sound Surface record label.

The album featured three singles; "The First Day of Spring", "The Coffee Song" and "Shadow", all which had music videos.

[2] The album's title is taken from a line in the novel Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The album's lead single, "The First Day of Spring," was named "Song of the Year" for the 1994 (CASBY Awards).