In listening to the debut EP ‘ Strange Futures ’ by the melodic Batavia punk band GumShoe , you can’t help but get the sense there’s something transformative taking place. From the exclamatory first note of the record’s opening song, ‘ Something’s Got to Give ,’ it’s as if the band is making some emphatic statement that it’s not fucking around. Of course, that’s not to suggest by any means that GumShoe in its previous work was somehow meandering. This is a band that’s always