Saturday, September 28, 2013
Surveillance is the third album by FM, a progressive rock group from Toronto, Canada, released on Passport Records in summer 1979.
Surveillance was the group's first album to be widely issued upon release. Their first album (Black Noise, 1977) was initially a limited edition, and their second (Direct to Disc, 1978) was exclusively a limited edition. A non-limited reissue of Black Noise was the group's first release by Passport, even though it featured an earlier lineup with Nash the Slash instead of his replacement, Ben Mink, the change having taken place before the band signed to the label.
One week before the intended release date, Passport's Canadian parent company, GRT Records went out of business, but Capitol Records bought the Canadian division of Passport from Visa Records (Passport's parent company in the USA), becoming its new parent company in Canada, and issued the album as the first of a new catalogue number sequence, PB-2001. It was also issued in the USA by Arista Records as Arista / Passport AB-4246.
Larry Fast of "Synergy" is credited with assistance; he would be the producer of FM's next album, City of Fear.
The album cover depicts a group photo displayed on a giant TV screen attached to an urban office tower, a futuristic concept at the time.
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