London, Ontario's Raised By Swans found a small but devoted international audience with the "beautiful, deeply compelling, cuts-you-to-the-core" sound of its critically-acclaimed debut Codes and Secret Longing. The album reached #37 on the !earshot Canadian national campus charts, hitting #1 on several stations across the country.

The new year brings the release of RBS' long-anticipated second full-length album,No Ghostless Place, once again recorded, mixed and mastered by the inimitable Andy Magoffin (singer-guitarist for Two-Minute Miracles, producer of Great Lake Swimmers, Constantines, Royal City). Decoymusic named the "ambient and dream-like" album one of their most anticipated of 2010, and Scene Magazine recently awarded the album an 'A+', calling it "more than worth the wait...No Ghostless Placeshimmers with emotion and fragile beauty". The album entered the national Canadian campus airplay charts at #24 (January 26th, 2010, !earshot).

Songs from both albums have made fans of some influential and well-respected filmmakers. Academy Award and Palm d'Or nominated director Atom Egoyan included three songs from Codes and Secret Longing in his film, Adoration (2009) and two songs from No Ghostless Place, in his newest film Chloe (2010). The band also appears as itself in a scene in Chloe, which stars Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried and Liam Neeson.

"The musical environment they create is really soulful and there's a sense of emotional nourishment you get listening to the sound design of the pieces," said Egoyan in an interview on The Parallel Universe on CHRW radio. "I was completely overwhelmed with the songwriting and began thinking about using them in film from the moment I heard them."

"Violet Light" from Codes and Secret Longing is featured in novelist Douglas Coupland's film Everything's Gone Green (2007), voted Canadian Feature Film of the Year at the Vancouver International Film Festival. The song was included on the soundtrack CD for the film (Lakeshore Records) alongside such artists as Final Fantasy, The Golden Dogs, The Fembots, and Sloan.

It's no wonder the band has garnered such prestigious attention, drawing comparisons in the press to Sigur Ros, Mew, and The Cure.

The band's current lineup is songwriter Eric Howden (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Alex Wright (guitar), Andy Magoffin (bass), and Brady Parr (drums). Live, the band is supplemented by Ray Cammaert (keyboards) of the band Pink Moth. With a cross-Canada tour planned in May, Raised By Swans will be touring throughout 2010 in support of No Ghostless Place.