Kevin Bronson on April 18th, 2014

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Dot Hacker’s lineage is longer than a hungry family’s shopping list – with all gourmet ingredients, mind you. The highlights are that the band was born out conversations between Josh Klinghoffer and Clint Walsh when they were touring members of Gnarls Barkley back in 2006, and around the time Klinghoffer was tabbed to replace John Frusciante in the Red Hot Chili Peppers the band came to include Jonathan Hischke and Eric Gardner. Nobody should have slept on Dot Hacker’s 2012 album “Inhibition,” though many did, largely because the quartet’s other duties prevented them from touring or doing much to support it. Fast forward to now: Dot Hacker has a new single “Whatever You Want” that’s getting released as a 1,000-copies-only 7-inch (b/w “Memory) Saturday as a Record Store Day special. The better news is that the two songs are part of a new album “How’s Your Process?” that the band will release in two parts, in July and September, respectively. Like Dot Hacker’s full-length – an intellectual rock record with far-flung influences – the new single similarly defies categorization. How about just “oh-wow-give-me-more?”

||| Stream: “Whatever You Want”

||| Previously: “Order Disorder”