Some songs just gather you up and whisk you along wherever they might be going. There’s no getting off, if the artist knows what they’re doing. Ohio’s Good Shade have arrived at that level of song mastery with “When Will You See” from their recent LP Think Spring. The song bounds into action from the start, all guitars-to-the-front of the mix – that grabbed me. Then the chorused vocals come in with a magnetism I find irresistible. But the real magic happens 30 seconds along with the shift to the chorus – what a hook! Good Shade are primarily Shane Natalie’s one man band, working the pop punk scene hard over the course of now five albums. But what is interesting is how the sound has slowly tipped from the punk to pop side of that spectrum over time. Early albums are hard rocking affairs where the melodies get a bit buried. Now they’re up front, as you can hear on “When Will You See.” Even as the song is fading out under a heavenly bit of background vocals I’m already hitting replay. I think you might be too.

Tune in to the whole Good Shade catalogue on bandcamp. You can check out all the other tunes on their new album or just bask in the glow of this great single.