Gondos are back, and they brought the fuzz. The Portland, Oregon four-piece return today with “Stop Calling Me,” a two-minute-forty-second garage rock rager that tears through the soul-crushing absurdity of office life. Singer and guitarist Aidan Case draws from a short-lived telemarketing gig, channeling anger, sarcasm, and pure exasperation into something that hits harder than any day job ever could.
The track is a gritty, high-velocity gut check, fuzz-laced and built for volume. Anger rarely sounds this focused or this fun.
Alongside the single, Gondos drop a video filmed in a Chinatown district warehouse in their hometown. Harsh fluorescent lighting, stripped-back space, zero pretense. The visual matches the music perfectly: direct, unadorned, alive.
“Stop Calling Me” marks the band’s first release in nearly a year, and it arrives with serious weight behind it. The sessions were recorded live to half-inch tape by lead guitarist Ben Windheim (also of Portland locals The Macks), and they mark the debut of new bassist Elisabeth Zarnick alongside Case, Windheim, and drummer Grant Anderson.