The Wellingtons are everything that's fun, smart and sweet about indie guitar pop – sunshine hooks, big choruses and girl-boy harmonies. Take two infectious, feel-good tunes with a shiny dollop of punchy pop on the top and you have their debut vinyl double-A side single Song For Kim/Freak Out.

For those who lap up tight, riffy guitars and retro-style saccharine harmonies, The Wellingtons deliver – fresh melodies that reel you in and leave you wanting more. Sounding like a youthful Weezer, five-piece The Wellingtons unashamedly wear their American-pop influences on their effortlessly charming sleeves. With Stateside ambitions mixing it up with twee-pop sensibilities, it’s little wonder The Wellingtons already have a track on US TV show “How I Met Your Mother”.

Aiming for the perfect (almost) two-minute pop song, the double A-side vinyl single features the effervescent Freak Out and the sparkling Song For Kim – a stomping slice of guitar-driven glee written as a fan dedication to Kim Shattuck, lead singer of mid-90s SubPop band The Muffs. “I’ve been an enormous fan of The Muffs for a long time,” says lead singer Zac, “and while on tour in America last year, we actually got to support them at a festival. We met and chatted, and when I wrote Freak Out, I asked Kim to sing backing vocals on the track and she agreed!” So with one side dedicated to indie fandom and the other featuring the very same object of desire, it’s an odd, but crackingly good twist of fate.

Only physically available on numbered 500-copy limited-edition 7” vinyl, the first 250 copies of Song For Kim/Freak Out will include a handmade-by-the-band screen-printed insert. The tracks will also be available for download at all good online/digital stores, and deserve to become an iPod playlist favourite.

With their album Heading North For The Winter due for release in November, The Wellingtons are going global to promote their brand of guitar pop with a world-wide tour that includes Australia, Japan, Spain and the USA with two shows in the UK in September.

• 20 Aug 08 - Brunswick Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
• 23 Aug 08 - Empress Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
• 30 Aug 08 - Curtin Bandroom, Melbourne, Australia
• 11 Sep 08 - Shelter, Tokyo, Japan
• 12 Sep 08 - Clapper, Osaka, Japan
• 13 Sep 08 - Decadent Delux, Fukuoka, Japan
• 14 Sep 08 - Club 4.14, Hiroshima, Japan
• 15 Sep 08 - KD Japon, Nagoya, Japan
• 16 Sep 08 - Park Diner, Ibaraki, Japan
• 17 Sep 08 - Club Junkox, Niigata, Japan
• 18 Sep 08 - Hip Shot Japan, Kooriyama, Japan
• 20 Sep 08 - Nambucca, London, UK
• 21 Sep 08 - The Windmill, Brixton, London, UK
• 23 Sep 08 - Savoy Club, Gijon, Spain
• 24 Sep 08 - La Pequeña Bety, Madrid, Spain
• 25 Sep 08 - La Pequeña Bety, Madrid, Spain
• 26 Sep 08 - Heartbreak Hotel, Albacete, Spain
• 27 Sep 08 - Matisse, Valencia, Spain
• 02 Oct 08 - TT The Bears, Boston, USA
• 03 Oct 08 - The Rivoli, Toronto, Canada
• 04 Oct 08 - The Red Line Tap, Chicago, USA
• 07 Oct 08 - The Mad Hatter, Cincinnati, USA
• 08 Oct 08 - The Rutledge, Nashville, USA
• 09 Oct 08 - Jammin Java, Washington DC, USA
• 10 Oct 08 - TBC, Philadelphia, USA
• 11 Oct 08 - Arlene’s Grocery, New York, USA
• 13 Oct 08 - Studio 7, Seattle, USA
• 14 Oct 08 - The Comet Tavern, Seattle, USA
• 15 Oct 08 - Dantes, Portland, USA
• 16 Oct 08 - The Rock-It Room, San Francisco, USA
• 17 Oct 08 - O’Connells, San Diego , USA
• 18 Oct 08 - The Knitting Factory, LA, USA
• 19 Oct 08 - Alex’s Bar, Long Beach , LA, USA
• 20 Oct 08 - The Airliner, LA, USA
• 29 Oct 08 - King King, LA, USA
• 28 Nov 08 - Miami Shark Bar , Gold Coast, Australia
• 29 Nov 08 - QUT Guild Bar, Brisbane, Australia
• 30 Nov 08 - The Tote, Melbourne, Australia
• 05 Dec 08 - East Brunswick Club, Melbourne, Australia
• 06 Dec 08 - The Producers Bar, Adelaide, Australia
• 07 Dec 08 - The Retreat Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
• 12 Dec 08 - The Evelyn Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
• 19 Dec 08 - Sandringham Hotel, Sydney, Australia