Black Noise is the debut studio album by Canadian progressive rock group FM.

"One O'Clock Tomorrow" was inspired by an interview with Timothy Leary as broadcast on The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (which came on at one o'clock a.m.), on which Leary talked about his ideas on space travel; or as explained by Hawkins in an introduction to the song during a live performance (from a radio broadcast), "Old Dr. Tim thought, a couple of bags of this, and a couple of bags of that, and he'd just take off into outer space"; but again, neither the title nor Leary are referenced in the lyrics.

"Black Noise" is about mutants who live in a secret underground world beneath a city, and rise up through the sewers at night.

The group expected it would be distributed in stores like a normal release, but the CBC chose to sell it by mail order, and only announced its availability during several radio shows.

Hawkins was surprised to find a competitor bidding for the rights, but his label emerged as the winning bidder.

Produced by Keith Whiting (with FM co-credited, for no apparent reason, on CD editions)