City of Fear is the fourth album by FM, a progressive rock group from Toronto, Canada, released in 1980 on Passport Records and distributed in Canada by Capitol Records, catalogue number PB-2028, and in the USA on Passport distributed by Jem Records, catalogue number PB-6004. It was produced by Larry Fast who was notable for his Synergy series of electronic music albums. A remastered edition was released by Esoteric Records (ECLEC2383) on March 25, 2013. The album made a brief appearance at #86 on the Canadian Top 100 Album charts just as the charts changed to a Top 50 ranking.
Track listing All compositions by FM (Martin Deller, Ben Mink, Cameron Hawkins), all lyrics by Hawkins. Side one "Krakow" – 4:37 "Power" – 3:28 "Truth or Consequences" – 4:13 "Lost and Found" – 4:25 "City of Fear" – 5:07
Side two "Surface to Air" – 5:18 "Up to You" – 4:21 "Silence" – 3:22 "Riding the Thunder" – 4:06 "Nobody at All" – 4:09
Personnel
Martin Deller – Gretsch drums, Zildjian and Paiste cymbals, glockenspiel, Moog percussion controller with Minimoog, PAiA programmable drum synthesizer, tympani Ben Mink – 5 string "bent" mandolin (electric), 5 string "Violite" (electric violin), 5 string viola (acoustic), 1912 "The Gibson" mandolin (acoustic), Fender amplifiers, vocals Cameron Hawkins – lead vocals, Mutron and Electro-Harmonix FX pedals, 9.95, Prophet 5, Minimoog, (Moog) Taurus pedals, ELKA (synthesizer), Yamaha grand (piano), Rickenbacker bass, Polyfusion sequencer, Larry's Moog 15 (modular synthesizer), Mellotron Additional personnel Pamela Silverstein – spoken word
Technical credits
Produced by Larry Fast Engineered by Jim Frank and Charles Conrad, assisted by Scott Rea and Cliff Hodsdon Production assistance by Ian Murray Recorded at Soundstage, Toronto, Canada, and House of Music, West Orange, New Jersey, USA Additional material recorded at Phase One, Toronto by Mark Wright Mastered by Bub Ludwig at Masterdisk, New York City, USA Synthy maintenance by Rob Onedera Pre-production with Ed Stone, Ian Dunbar, Jim Frank, Ian Murray, Mark Wright Art direction and design: Murray Brenman Photography – cover: Eric Staller Photography – insider cover: Paul Till Photography – stand-ups: Bob Rock (the cover art features time lapse photography using life-size cardboard cut-out images of the group's members)
References
External links Album information at Blacknoise website