Kevin Bronson on October 18th, 2018

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The surf’s never too far up in Long Beach, where singer-songwriter Joel Bond makes his home. And the music Bond makes as Fort Jams is more suited for contemplating while watching waves lap up on the shore than riding a crest.

Bond, the onetime guitarist-keyboardist in the Fling, will release his first EP, “Far Out,” next week via Plastic Jurassic Records. It marks a return to music for Bond after a single release in late 2014 (“Jacket Inside,” which ended up in an episode of “Pretty Little Liars” in January 2015). The EP was produced in the songwriter’s garden shed in the wee hours while his wife and son were asleep.

The surf-cum-folk-cum-psych-pop on “Far Out” glides past in shades of deep blue — world-weary but hopeful reminders to stop and smell the ocean breeze, sung with the fragility and honesty of someone who realizes the impermanence of real connections. “Seems like every moment I get / is flying quickly by,” Bond sings in the title track, sighing at the end, “I’m tired of being far out.”

||| Stream: “Far Out” in its entirety