One Perfect Rose is a pop project founded in 2007 by Aaron and Emily Messer, who would eventually get married in 2008.

Though envisioned as a mainstream project, OPR still isn't afraid to stand out from the cookie-cutter crowd of similar acts. Case in point: their as-of-yet untitled debut, which eschews the conventional "bigger and louder is better" mentality of popular music today, and goes for a simple, minimalistic approach: Each song consists of one track of acoustic guitar, and one ...