Kevin Bronson on March 29th, 2017

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Jeff Caudill is known for being the angsty voice in the buzzsaw punk music of Gameface, and for being really tall. He’s still really tall, but in the time Gameface — who released a slew of albums from the mid-’90s through 2003 before issuing a comeback album in 2014 — has been on the back burner, Caudill has explored his folk and alt-country side in a string of releases. Now, he ratchets up the energy (and electricity) on his new concept EP, “Reset the Sun,” a Record Store Day (April 22) release. It’s big-hearted rock-Americana that wears like denim. “I wanted this song to feel like I felt listening to the Eagles in the backseat of my mom’s car in 1978 — and not wearing a seatbelt,” Caudill says. “It’s the road theme in the story, it’s also where the train beat meets psych-rock.” Indeed, the single “Tears in My Ears” seemed penned for long treks down America’s blue highways, destination uncertain. “Years go by like headlights / on the highway,” Caudill sings in the EP’s title track, and, we might add, sometimes they’re a blur.

||| Stream: “Tears in My Ears”