Young Dunedin bedroom musician Jack Brosnahan has just released his debut EP under the moniker Yesses, and it's DIY psych-pop of the highest calibre.
Brosnahan recorded the core elements for the EP in his parents' home, working late into the night.
With only his MacBook and a couple of cheap microphones, he laid down all of the vocals and instrumentation himself.
The young songwriter clearly has an ear for detail, levelling up his take on a pop tune with meticulous and painstaking production embellishments that really bring the works to life.
Throughout the EP off-kilter buzzing solos, tambourines, backing vocals and synths all appear, zooming from nowhere: warped, warbly and superbly sunny.
It's what Dunedin blog PopLib calls ''pop with things that go zing''.
In Short Love you're drawn to an immaculate euphonic harmony, Beach Boys-style, while in Your Clothes the song gives way, or maybe more aptly gives up, to an oncoming barrage of hyper-melodic funky bass, a front of sound textures and some weird robotic-sounding noises that could be guitar or even MIDI horns, but given the context may as well just be classed as ''misc''.
It sounds like a tripping Syd Barrett let loose in the age of the multi-effects pedal and digital content manipulation, and its maximalism is both lighthearted and dreamy, and gorgeous to get lost in.
After tracking everything, Brosnahan sent the tracks to drummer Mitchell Innes, who laid the drum parts down over the already complete songs.
Another friend, De Stevens, based in Christchurch, then mixed and mastered it all.
''I just sent it to him thinking the whole thing wasn't very good and then it came back sounding great,'' Brosnahan said.
The Yesses EP has garnered comparisons to many of the acts in today's psych pop revival, acts such as Kevin Parker's Tame Impala, chill Edmontonian Mac DeMarco or the hypnagogic Connan Mockasin, but Brosnahan says his biggest influence is New Zealand siblings Ruban and Kody Nielson, the former Mint Chicks, who are now both making music solo.
''When I was younger, I'd just listen to Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! constantly and learnt all the songs by heart.''
You can hear the lineage of the brothers' work throughout the EP, the syncopation of guitar leads and Ruban-like high-pitched vocals on Dreams, the Screens-like sugar-coated kooky-pop, or the rawer, punky energy the band bring to the stage.
In two weeks Brosnahan will swap Dunedin for Canada, where he'll spend his time working and hopefully forming a post-punk band with high school friend Ike.
The pair will first base themselves in rural Yellowknife (''the home of Ice Road Truckers'') before perhaps moving on to Montreal or Vancouver.
The move was the impetus behind the EP, with Brosnahan wanting to put out some pop music with his friends before he left, and to fulfil a request from his mother to give her something to play in the car while he was away.
But having only had time for one proper show, and given the attention the EP is rapidly gathering, part of him wishes he were sticking around for a little longer.
''I'm just worried about how to maintain the hype,'' Brosnahan laughed.
''I've posted on Facebook every day since I released the EP.''
With tunes like this, I'm guessing it shouldn't be a problem.
Get it
Download Yesses self-titled debut EP for ''pay as you like'' from Bandcamp www.yesses.bandcamp.com/
