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
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	04:49
I Braineater	1980 More	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:57
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Salt And the Choppers	Flounder	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	03:01
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
Images In Vogue	Welcome to Sorrow	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:07
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
Escalators	Wooly Bully	ST	03:58
Modernes Pickles	Deathrace 2000	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:44
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
NEO A4	Rescue Me	ST	03:59
Vital Sines	Big Dark Dreams	Big Dark Dreams	05:25
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
Tim Ray	Now What Was That! (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:59
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Cinebar	Venus	Another Fine Day	03:43
Secret Act	Helpless	My Neighbourhood	04:14
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	The Swimmer	ST	02:30
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Neighbours	Spunker	04:29
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
Maurice & The Clichés	Working Girls	C'est la vie	03:44
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
True Confessions	Don't Go to Work on Me	ST	02:11
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
Glamorcult	Past Glory (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	04:32
Timothy Chipman	China Doll	Ghost Parade	02:31
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Handful of Snowdrops	Remedy (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:34
Melinite	Another Attempt	Push The Button And Run!	02:27
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Reasons	The Fall	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:59
Voice	I Am the Walrus	Anno Di Voce	03:24
Extras	Seeing You Again	The Road to Zambando	03:40
Moral Lepers	Dead of Night	Turn to Stone	03:59
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Glen Meadmore	Hen Party	Chicken & Biscuits	05:22
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Glamorcult	I Tell Him	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:00
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
Spoons	B Movie	Static In Transmission	04:34
NEO A4	In My Life	The Warmer Side of You	03:19
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
Spoons	2,000 Years	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
The Voxx	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Null Set	Teats de Nuit	New Job (EP)	02:51
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Streetcar Named Desire	Illustrated Man	Life Begins	05:25
The Play	Whispers in the Air	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:50
Numbers	Bits & Pieces	Add Up	02:45
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Mannequin Demo	04:46
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
Martha And The Muffins	Hide and Seek	Metro Music	03:58
Secret Act	Our Little Secret	My Neighbourhood	04:36
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
Handful of Snowdrops	Shadows on the Heart	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:33
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
Spoons	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:00
Vital Sines	New Heroes	Big Dark Dreams	04:55
Modernes Pickles	Destination Martin	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:13
Handful of Snowdrops	Land of the Damned (1986)	Mort en direct	08:59
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
Drama	A Kiss Without Lust	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:12
The Edge	Release the Circle	Release the Circle	04:36
Modern Minds	The Fear Begins	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:48
A Kid	Wrong and Bite	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	06:21
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Handful of Snowdrops	Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:58
Erect	Cry of a Leo	Consequence of Life	02:48
Extras	Mega Media Myth	The Road to Zambando	04:47
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:29
Moral Support	Heart of Gold	Insanity	03:40
Austra	The Beast	Feel it Break	04:02
Bündock	Lover for Hire	Société Anonyme	03:25
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Living End (1)	All Mine	ST	03:08
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
Cannon Heath Down	Fortunate	Heart-Throb Companion	01:22
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
The Edge	Go Away	Release the Circle	03:11
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Corsage	Baby Said	ST	03:37

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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