By Stephanie King

Finnish five-piece Husky Rescue make the kind of ambient pop music capable of teleporting you to a land of snow and ice, fresh spruce forests and eye-watering sunshine. As the cold winds push us into spring, Husky Rescue’s The Sound of Love will ripple through your headphones like a chilling breath of Nordic air.

By Stephanie King

The first time I heard this song I thought it was one of the ugliest rackets I’d heard in a long time. It sounded like Love Music Angel Baby-era Gwen Stefani stripped of its haute-couture edge and replaced with the sales rack at New Look.

By Huma Yusuf

Pakistanis are hungry for visual representations of their own culture. What else explains the success of designer Maheen Khan’s truck art-inspired Gulabo line, the wildfire popularity of reproductions of Lollywood posters, and the prevalence of new art that grapples with Pakistani standards such as the passport stamp or Jinnah’s portrait?

By Stephanie King

The name of Gorillaz’ forthcoming album Plastic Beach provides clues to what Stylo has to offer – a sci-fi hybrid of the synthetic, the contaminated, the superficial and the beautiful. It’s got the sort of smooth, mid-tempo electro-groove that brings to mind car adverts and shopping centres; slick, mechanised and hygienically inhuman. It’s precisely the kind of uber-cool detached pop you’d expect a cartoon band to make.