How do you like your indie rock? Does the recent trend toward lo-fi garage psychedelics led by Deerhunter, Ty Segall, Kurt Vile, Girls and Wavves irritate, or do you happily envision a world in which Their Satanic Majesties Request would be as influential as Exile on Main Street?

Your answer to that question will play a substantial role in how you receive King Rey’s new Street Friends EP, self-released and freely available online. This New Orleans-via-Houma outfit weaves the harmonies and sun-soaked vibes of the Beach Boys with a Spoon-like pure pop precision, crafting some of the most undeniably pleasurable tracks I’ve heard this year. There is a confidence in this debut that belies the full year of work spent building these six songs into the swirling gems they are. Each track is sonically dense; rarely do you hear fewer than three voices “ooh”-ing away behind the catchy central melodies. Tent-pole cuts like “Honeypie,” “Having Fun” and “Solar Ground” firmly entrenched themselves in my brain for the better part of a month, and it would be difficult to dislike music this cheerily vulnerable.

Rarely do independently financed young rock bands sound this good. King Rey is quickly joining the ranks of local heroes on the brink of something bigger (see Big History, Sun Hotel) and doing so with nothing but stellar songwriting.