You could say, in a way, the Rescues started as a wedding band. 'A guy named Billy had us play his wedding reception,' Gabriel Mann said from his Los Angeles music studio. Billy wanted something interesting at his party. Mann, Kyler England and Adrianne Gonzalez, three 30-something friends and L.A.-based singer-songwriters, played originals and covers together. Sure, taking the gig was all for the money, Mann said with a laugh. But it was at that wedding reception that the Rescues were born. Less than two years later the Rescues, now a four-person band showcasing beautiful, tight and unique vocal harmonies, have had songs featured on 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Army Wives.' 'We didn't have an ulterior motive,' Mann said. 'The three of us got together, and it just felt good. It felt good to be in a band.' They released their first album, 'Crazy Ever After,' in 2008. Thinking they would need a temporary substitute for Mann, who was composing music for a video game at the time, they asked Rob Giles, another friend and singer-songwriter, to join them. Mann didn't need to take a hiatus after all, but the band added Giles to the mix anyway. Many bands are labeled alternative, but the Rescues actually are. Their sound is incomparable. It's not often you find four equally talented musicians in one band, let alone four lead singers. They each play numerous instruments, sing and write music. Gonzalez, England and Giles attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. Mann majored in musical composition at the University of Pennsylvania and has written compositions for such TV shows as 'Arrested Development' and 'Office Space.' None of them are musical slouches riding on their looks or their connections. Each has found some level of success separately. And together they might find the synergy to propel themselves forward. 'One of the very interesting things about it is that all of us have our own (stuff) going on. We have made time for this thing because we believe in it,' Mann says. In January, the band spent three weeks working on 'Let Loose the Horses,' a not-yet-released album that employs creative sounds in a very accessible, poppy package while continuing to showcase the foursome's crown jewel: the vocal harmonies. 'Ultimately I think there was a real magic when the four of us got together,' Mann says. So much talent could be a curse for a band without the right amount of collaboration. 'There's definitely no person in the band who is a wallflower,' Mann says. Coming up with good music is not a problem, but 'coming up with something we all agree on,' he says, 'is the hard part. There's definitely no shortage of information, talent or ideas. It's usually, do we like any of these 10 things and which are we going to go with?' They use some songwriting methods: Sitting in a circle, they'll write down what they're thinking; each musician will read his or her thoughts aloud and then they all 'mine it for certain things.' Or maybe one or two of them come up with an idea that the rest like. 'The giving-up of control is a positive and a negative,' Mann says. 'We also would have days when we would come into the studio and bang our heads against the wall and everyone hated everything the others were doing.' But during those three weeks in January, they not only produced, they also realized they could work together. 'It's really difficult. It's not for the faint of heart,' Mann says. Yet, 'ultimately the ends are worth the means.' Luckily for the Rescues, the ends these days are about a lot more than getting paid after playing a few sets at a wedding. 