New Wave Post Punk Wave

A sonic crash where style meets substance, and attitude meets atmosphere. This collection dives deep into Canada’s wave-driven underground—where angular guitars, icy synths, and restless energy redefined punk and reshaped pop. From the art-school edges of New Wave to the introspective shadows of Post-Wave and the raw pulse of Punk Wave, these tracks capture a scene in flux, bursting with invention and edge. Cool, quirky, and unapologetically bold—this is the sound of the future, past and present.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Handful of Snowdrops	As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:06
Numbers	Get Away	Add Up	02:43
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Promise	ST	04:31
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Handful of Snowdrops	Voices in the Night	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:41
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
Hunger Project	Still Crossing	Demo 1982	07:46
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Eight Seconds	Wings	Almacantar	04:46
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Absolute 9	She Believes	ST	02:52
Boys Brigade	Touch Glass	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:25
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Psyche	The Brain Collapses (Original Concept)	Insomnia Theatre	04:07
No Comment	Honesty	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:46
Tim Ray	Dying in Brooklyn (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:40
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
Spoons	Numb	Static In Transmission	03:50
Tenants	I Love Romance	ST	03:55
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
Extras	Sporting Life	The Road to Zambando	03:50
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
Boys Brigade	Melody	Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee	04:06
The Front	The Same Girl	Underworld	04:14
Buddy King & the Motion!	I Didn't Know Her	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:14
Handful of Snowdrops	Alice in Wonderland (1992)	Mort en direct	05:20
Melinite	Who Needs Foreplay?	Push The Button And Run!	01:30
The Idles	Foreign Son	The Idles Demo	03:53
Jon Mullane	The Distant Light	Following Yesterday	04:05
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
John Young Paul	Is That Why?	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News IV	I Fear What I Might Hear	07:58
Kaméléon	Insomnuit	ST	04:26
Spoons	Radio Heaven	Bridges Over Borders	03:57
Government	Get You Sleepin'	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:17
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Decade of Dreams	Sarah	Wild Colloquial	02:26
Cannon Heath Down	ma-de-moi-selle	Heart-Throb Companion	03:15
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Stood Up	The Circuit	02:42
Extras	Don’t Put Me On Hold	The Road to Zambando	02:52
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
Second Thoughts	Integrity	Integrity b/w Wound Up	03:19
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
Lawn	Rites	Peace in the Valley	03:48
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Utopiate	You've Been Warned	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:41
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	05:12
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Start	Stereo	Hey You	03:16
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Inner Sanction	Mystery & Harmony	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:41
Quasi Hands	Lovelife	ST	03:01
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Palace at 4 a.m.	I Go Hungry	Untamed World	03:43
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
Braineaters	London Town	Planet X	01:24
Bruce PM	Well, Yes	Makeshift	04:45
Spoons	Tidal Wave	Bridges Over Borders	03:55
Handful of Snowdrops	Mort en direct (1989)	Mort en direct	03:38
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Furniture Dancing	Spunker	03:15
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Benjamin Russell	Want a World	Madman	02:13
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Images In Vogue	In the House	In The House	04:07
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
The Front	Twice Shy	Underworld	03:37
Hygiene Club	Hawaii	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:00
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
The Scene (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Volts	No Time Like the First Time	Plugged In	02:52
True Confessions	7-11 Heaven	ST	02:17

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army b/w Puppet

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Klō - No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Fun b/w Weirdo

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Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party

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Spoons - New Day New World

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Spoons - Static In Transmission

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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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Avril Chown - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

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Kultur - Kultur

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