Take two guitars, bass and drums. Add charming boy-girl vocals, a subtle style of playing and some harmonica and you have your new favourite band The Elephants!
The Copenhagen-based group is inspired by both the clean 60s Beach Boys-sound, raucous Velvet Underground songs and newer experimental groups like The Flaming Lips. Most importantly, The Elephants knows how to put together a good and catchy pop song that aims straight for the heart on both the one in love and the heartbroken.

In february 2006 the group released the EP “Special Thing” that carried on the bittersweet songwriting from the predecessor “Lazybones”. On Special Thing, however, the group has experimented more with the arrangements and added piano, lap steel, violin and flute to the ingredients. Besides, Brian Wilson has taught them how to arrange a chorus.
Recently, The group has finished recording the two singles “Shivers” and “Valentine’s Day” with producer Morten Bue (Figurines, Diefenbach, Moi Caprice).

The Elephants were formed in Copenhagen in 2003 and consist of the two singers and guitar-players Bjarke Bendtsen and Martine Madsen, the bass-player Rasmus Nybo and Kristian Berg behind the drums. The group's new fifth member is odd-job man Mads Ringblom playing the harmonica, theremin, tambourine and other funny things.

So far, the quirky and tuneful elephants have received good critical acclaim from the Danish reviewers, and recently the band was selected to be band of the week at the leading Danish music weblog Mymusic.dk.
In addition, the group has played a lot of concerts in Copenhagen and has become known as a breathtaking live act. Mads Just Olesen, the live editor at Mymusic.dk, wrote after the band’s last concert at the venue Loppen: “They are making an unusual good and unusual ingenuous impression. Everyone who has listened to their newest EP Lazybones knows what I’m talking about. Also this ordinary Wednesday night at Loppen the message was clear. Without a hitch The Elephants lead us through an hour of real happy California-feeling...”

In October The Elephants will visit the US to play a number of shows, primarily in New York, and in the end of the year it's time to record the debut album.

For music and more info please check the group’s website www.elephants.dk or their myspace site www.myspace.com/theelephantsdk.

(source: www.elephants.dk)