City of Fear (album)

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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.[1]

City of Fear
Studio album by
Released1980
RecordedSoundstage, Toronto
StudioHouse of Music, West Orange, New Jersey
Phase One, Toronto
GenreProgressive rock
Length43:06
LabelPassport
ProducerLarry Fast
FM chronology
Surveillance
(1979)
City of Fear
(1980)
Con-Test
(1985)

Track listing

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All compositions by FM (Martin Deller, Ben Mink, Cameron Hawkins), all lyrics by Hawkins.

Side one
  1. "Krakow" – 4:37
  2. "Power" – 3:28
  3. "Truth or Consequences" – 4:13
  4. "Lost and Found" – 4:25
  5. "City of Fear" – 5:07
Side two
  1. "Surface to Air" – 5:18
  2. "Up to You" – 4:21
  3. "Silence" – 3:22
  4. "Riding the Thunder" – 4:06
  5. "Nobody at All" – 4:09

Personnel

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Additional personnel

  • Pamela Silverstein – spoken word

Technical credits

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums - November 22, 1980" (PDF).
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