Wearing the kind of wicked smile befitting a group who sing songs about people like the wonderful Doctor Seuss, the 3Ds are chaotic pop leaders of a new generation of bands from New Zealand's Flying Nun label.

This quartet's songsmithery may include the melodic snse of countrymen The Bats, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience et al, but they turn that upside down, straight into insistent guitar hookery. Here's a brand of kiwi noise that's a new type of fun.

"Hey Seuss" is a blast of D-mentia taken from the forthcoming album The Venus Trail. This single also features the epic guitar tangle of "Man On The Verge Of Nervous Breakdown" (another song on show from the album) and a newly recorded bonus track, "River Burial".

"Hey Seuss" is released worldwide by Flying Nun this month. The single has already featured on Melody Maker's "Maker Hit List" of ten favourite advance cassettes. The Venus Trail sees Australian release on April 4.

In other news around the 3rd Dimension, there's already been international acclaim for The Venus Trail. Spin previewed the album as the group's finest moment, confirming their status as "the world's premier noisy pop band". And this week in the UK, Select awarded The Venus Trail four stars, calling the 3Ds "pretty much timeless -- it's impossible to tag their guitar-agitated brew with any musical epoch from the past decade."

The 3Ds leave New Zealand in April, aiming to follow those reviews with a dose of live mayhem. They pass through Sydney and Melbourne, where they were last seen playing with the Lemonheads in January, before heading to London for gigs and a Peel Session. In May, The 3Ds tour America with Pavement and Superchunk before returning to Europe for another tour.