City of Fear (album)

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
 * 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
Additional 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
 * 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)