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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 • "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==
Personnel
Martin DellerGretsch 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==
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