It looks like in 2007, everything’s coming up Brunettes, especially if you’re an American fan of the New Zealand twee-pop band. There’s a new single out (you’ll have to endure MySpace to hear it for now), their third album is getting an American release on Sub Pop, and they’ll be touring North America in June if all goes as planned. The Brunettes are no strangers to the New World, having last come through here for SXSW 2006 after spending the previous summer opening for the Shins and Rilo Kiley. Chances are if you’re a North American fan of the Brunettes, you saw them at one of those shows; their infectiously goofy brand of grandiose twee pop comes off particularly well live, and it’s still one of my great shames that I only managed to catch half their opening set when Rilo Kiley was in Toronto last.

With a domestically released album to support in the near future and presumably a decent push from Sub Pop, the Brunettes could ride an even bigger wave this time out, winning hearts and minds like an Australasian shock-and-awe indie pop invasion. No date yet for Structure and Cosmetics but it’d be kind of weird if the Brunettes came all this way, guitars and keyboards and clarinets and trumpets in tow, without plenty of albums to sign after the show. Maybe this time they’ll even come with Mary Kate and Ashley masks for the rest of us.