Two pop rock tracks from opposite ends of the process spectrum. various, an AI-assisted single from St. Louis with a Taylor Swift heart. Rosso Tierney’s Oh Divine, composed on a King’s Cross Station piano during a spiritual awakening. Different roads, same genre.
Joe Kandel – I still believe in love
Joe Kandel land an emotional punch in under three minutes with I Still Believe in Love: high-energy pop rock with a Taylor Swift-shaped chorus and hope as the through-line
I Still Believe in Love is high-energy pop rock built around a hopeful, relatable message: love and connection in a world where most people feel alone. The track has been gaining traction on SoundCloud, and the songwriting borrows clearly from Taylor Swift’s playbook: a giant chorus, emotional centre, no overcomplicated production. It’s all straight to the heart, and it really works.
Joe is an artist project from St. Louis, Missouri, working in pop rock with a clear Taylor Swift north star. Pop has always been collaborative process, with co-writers, session players, and ghost producers, and Joe Kandel reframes that openness for the AI era, using modern production techniques. The track itself lands an emotional beat in under three minutes, and hope is the through-line. It’s a great track.
Rosso Tierney – Oh Divine
Rosso Tierney wrote Oh Divine at a piano in King’s Cross Station and finished it in the Sahara, and that journey shows: this is a melodic rock ballad that earns every bit of its ambition
Oh Divine started life on a piano at King’s Cross Station, where Rosso Tierney composed it spontaneously after the lyrics had arrived from a moment of inner awakening. It was finished at York’s Innersound Studio with producer Sam Graves, who co-produced Asking Alexandria’s The Black album, the right level of polish for what’s at heart a melodic rock ballad about shedding an old self. The Moroccan Sahara music video makes the yin-yang concept literal: a dark masked figure and a luminous lighter self who never quite meet, with the central lyric “as I take off this mask” landing on visible transformation.
Rosso Tierney is a York-based solo artist and multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, bass, vocals) with a foundation in punk that runs deep, including current duties as singer and bassist for Sema 4, a late-70s punk band signed to Detour Records. His solo work pulls tastefully from Bowie, Damiano David and YungBlud, landing in modern glam art rock territory with technical vocal chops. The wider project is rooted in men’s mental health, neurodiversity, and healing through spirituality, with ten-plus singles planned, and Oh Divine sits inside that mission as a study in vulnerability, truth, and transformation. It’s got a big heart, this one, and we really love it.