once.lost.pictures

Now here's something rather unique: once.lost.pictures were a two-person acoustic band from Iowa, active in the early 2000s; the vocalist was also in Dispensing of False Halos. once.lost.pictures are similar in most ways to other acoustic emo bands—they sound quite close to Full Surrender—but the drum machine, keyboards, and sampling set them apart. At times their sound is eerily prescient of the current emo trap movement, despite being released well over a decade before that music came to prominence. In that particular combination of sounds, these guys were way ahead of their time.

Their only release appears to be the forever.always LP, put out in 2002.

forever.always