Ottawa alternative rock band Sills and Smith release "No Way In, No Way Out" Ottawa, March 13, 2012 - Sills and Smith have released their second studio album called "No Way In, No Way Out." Thematically, the album is a desperate cry from the wilderness for a kinder, gentler, more caring world. The new disc has 15 original songs and over 53 minutes of tuneful, diverse music. The styles range from gentle folk, to prog. rock to alternative rock and all points in between. The album comes rocketing out of the gate with Melancholy World and Open Season On Love and rocks pretty hard throughout. But it also showcases beautiful, quiet tunes like These Ghosts, Radiance and Life In Miniature, epic numbers such as the title track, No Way In, No Way Out and the album's six minute centrepiece, Would It All Be Different? The disc features Jeremy Sills on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars; Frank Smith on vocals and Jonathan Edwards contributing acoustic and electric guitars, drums, bass, keyboards, piano and vocals. Edwards, an integral part of the Sills and Smith band, is again on board as multi-instrumentalist and producer. The band recorded at his studio, Corvidae Music from December, 2011 to February, 2012. "No Way In, No Way Out" is a follow-up to "Uncertain Vista," released in 2011. For a debut indie recording, that album garnered considerable critical attention from music bloggers. In December, 2011 "Uncertain Vista" made respected T.O. Snob's Music blog's, Best of 2011 list ahead of albums by heavy hitters -- on major labels -- including Thurston Moore and Canada's Dan Mangan, a Polaris Music Prize nominee. While "Uncertain Vista" has mostly short songs, a number of tunes on "No Way In, No Way Out" have extended instrumental passages and complex, layered vocal arrangements. The album is a natural progression from "Uncertain Vista" and finds the band firing on all cylinders, with a powerful set of songs, top-notch musicianship and production. "No Way In, No Way Out" is sold digitally through CD Baby, iTunes, and Amazon and other major online outlets. The beautiful digipak edition is being printed and will be available at the end of March in select music stores and from CD Baby. Six tracks from the album are posted for preview listening on the band's Reverbnation website.