Dogwood

Building A Better Me (2000)

Ryan

If you have never heard of the band Dogwood you are
definetely missing out on ear popping guitar riffs and
loud and obnoxious music. To me they sound a lot like
Alkaline Trio. The bass guitar is almost a heavy low
sound that grinds into the speakers and cuts into your
nerves. Then it proceeds to shatter the windshield in
your piece of crap car. They are actually a Christian
punk band thats full of meaningful lyrics and sing a
long choruses.

The best songs on this full-length
album are; "The Good Times," which starts off without a
bass guitar or drums which is really cool. Then about
ten seconds later it breaks out rockin hard. The other
song that really stands out is, "Building A Better
Me." The chorus will knock your socks off and make you
sing to it when your listening. The last song that I
would like to mention is my favorite song on the album and I
suggest you at least download it as soon as you see
this. It is called, "Comes Crashing." Wow!!!!!! That
pretty much sums that up. Basically this song goes
back to what I said about the guitar riffs. it almost
makes you feel like your whole body is viabrating.

The only thing that I see in this album that could actually annoy someone is the lead singer, Josh Kembles voice. It is hard to describe something like this, but his voice is very aggressive and scratchy. Thats right scratchy. The funny part about this though is he definitely pulls this off in a big way. With the album being what it is, and the band doing what they do all I can say is get your ass to the nearest cd store, pick this up and do me one favor. Enjoy!!!