Inch - Dot Class C

Boy I had forgotten what a good album this is. While sitting here at my desk today, I finally got around to loading up the CD changer to my stereo with a few older albums that I hadn’t listened to in awhile. In this case, it had been a LONG while. I just put it on play and let it go through each disc and eventually Dot Class C by the San Diego band Inch came on. I had completely forgotten how much I enjoyed this album. I would go back and do a whole thing about each of their albums, but honestly I am just feeling the rush of my rediscovered liking for this album. Maybe I can do that another time. But anyway, Inch was a pretty good San Diego pop-punk/post-hardcore band that fit right along with various other groups like Garden Variety, Fluf, and No Knife. They released three albums before calling it quits.

Dot Class C, their second album, was sort of the casualty of major label mishandling. Everything about the album had been going well until Atlantic ended up going through some major internal changes. As it always seems with these types of things, the band was left to be in limbo for a hefty amount of time, along with the release of their album which had long since been finished. After months of waiting the band was eventually dropped from the label and the album got snatched up by Cargo/Headhunter Records to be released in 1997. While this may not be their best record, it’s pretty damn good. I remember liking their first album Stresser a bit more, but hey…that’s been awhile ago. The band had been trimmed down to a three piece before this album was ever made, which I personally don’t think they suffered too much from. It sounds good. But yeah, for anyone that’s into that San Diego sound and hasn’t checked out Inch, by all means take a listen to the tracks below from Dot Class C.

Inch – For Duty and Humanity [MP3]
Inch – Sugar [MP3]
Inch – Velocipede [MP3]

Dot Class C and the rest of the bands albums are still available over at Amazon. Members from Inch can be found in current projects that I am currently aware of, Harvey Knuckles and El Ten Eleven.