Photo courtesy of Call the Doctor

Bristol, UK’s Call the Doctor lifted their name from Sleater-Kinney’s second album and the female-fronted band unabashedly reaches for their predecessor’s ferocious guitar rock. Their hard-hitting “Flaws” opens with a quick note of feedback and spins into jagged guitar riffs and muscular percussion, with singer Patti Aberhart smearing her vocals across the fast-paced cut. The song clocks in at only three minutes and the four-piece leaves little room in between their spiky instrumentals; there’s even less space between the vocals when Aberhart sings over her male band member’s spoken chant, mid-way through. Entering the song like her conscience, he sings, “Get to the real world. You’re such a dreamer girl. No time for self-infliction. You’re such a contradiction.” It’s a bright moment, that’s perhaps delivered tongue-in-cheek, but its sentiment is one that we all could benefit from hearing, every so often.

“Flaws” comes from the band’s forthcoming album Hands Will Shake, due out this July.