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
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
The Front	Hide And Seek	Gina's at a Party	03:17
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	A Neon Rome	05:44
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
Kultur	Here it Comes	Kultur	03:11
Modern Minds	Punk Violence	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:16
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Mannequin Demo	04:46
The Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Tim Ray	Hiding Out (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:03
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
The Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Blue Oil	Unwind	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:35
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:35
British Properties	Eight Days a Week	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:20
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
Spoons	No Electrons	Arias & Symphonies	05:12
Modern Minds	Girl Crazy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:22
Cottage Industry	The Point on a Hill	The Winter's Tale	03:59
Kings	It's Okay	Are Here	02:55
NEO A4	Say This to Me	ST	03:31
Melinite	When You Turn Again	Push The Button And Run!	03:12
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mad at the World	Space and Time	03:51
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Government	Fumigators	Electric Eye	04:27
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
Compilation	Vital Sines - Come and Buy Your Miracle	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:31
Salt And the Choppers	Flounder	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	03:01
Compilation	Moist & Tender - You're On My Way	Toronto Calling	02:42
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
Scenics	Mony Mony	Underneath the Door	02:52
Barking Boys	Blood Money	The Yes Girls	05:01
I Braineater	Davie Street	I Here, Where You	02:54
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
Numbers	Can't Take It	Add Up	03:40
John Young Paul	Angels With Dirty Faces	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:33
Compilation	The Dave Howard Singers - They Come They Go	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:33
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
David Raven & the Escorts	Somethin' in Our Way	David Raven And The Escorts	04:25
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
100 Flowers	21st Guessing	21st Guessing	04:16
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Tame & Talking	Darkened Dream	ST	03:10
Age of Mirrors	Everything Looks The Same	Mirage	03:38
Spoons	New Day New World II	New Day New World	02:01
Null Set	Rubber Wings	New Job (EP)	03:31
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Compilation	Big Deal - Movie Star	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:36
The Patterns	Always Sixteen	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	02:44
Pukka Orchestra	Miss Right	ST	03:32
Bobby and Synthia	Video Violence	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:53
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:20
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
The Plugs	Sending An S.O.S.	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:21
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Figures At Dawn	Letters from London	ST	04:14
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Cannon Heath Down	ma-de-moi-selle	Heart-Throb Companion	03:15
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
Maurice & The Clichés	Unschuld	C'est la vie	03:43
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - Essay - Me Dad	Toronto Calling	06:06
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Corsage	Big Night Out (Doll & Penny's Trance Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	07:45
Compilation	Zro4 - Blood	No Pedestrians	03:29
Cottage Industry	Kulturkreise	The Winter's Tale	03:02
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Glamorcult	Lonely Faces	The Stone Sessions	03:12
Bangkok	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	02:13
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Moev	Alibis	Dusk and Desire	04:37
Modernes Pickles	Vitamin K	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:49
UJ3RK5	Name Pavlov Ring Bell	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	05:28
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Blue Oil	Money	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:50

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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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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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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