Pop Unknown was an American

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 emo

Emo

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 band from Austin

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, Texas

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 formed by ex members of Mineral

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 (Gabe Wiley) and Feed Lucy. They released their debut EP Summer Season Kills in 1999 and followed it with their first full length album If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra later that year both on Deep Elm Records

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. In 2002 they released a second album titled The August Division. In 2003 the members founded a side project called 'Kissing Chaos' which became the primary band and Pop Unknown was ended.