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
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Tim Ray	Knockdown the Ashes (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:05
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
NEO A4	Desire	The Warmer Side of You	04:02
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Modern Minds	Substitute	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:41
Palace at 4 a.m.	Untamed World	Untamed World	03:52
Diodes	City of the Dead	Action-Reaction	04:04
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - Awful Medley	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Flying Goodbye	Ohama aka The White Album	03:45
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Images In Vogue	Holiday (Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	04:16
Norda	West Over Seas	West Over Seas	05:54
Austra	Lose It	Feel it Break	04:29
Spoons	Rodeo	Bridges Over Borders	04:12
Numbers	Get Away	Add Up	02:43
Faded Films	Jack in the Box	Faded Years	05:06
Pukka Orchestra	Flies (as Big as Your Fist)	ST	03:13
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Handful of Snowdrops	Ends & Meanings (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:00
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
Oui	Pulling Me Closer	Oui	03:45
Spoons	Bridges Over Borders	Bridges Over Borders	05:02
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Drastic Measures	Big Town Boy (Shirley Matthews)	ST	02:00
Tame & Talking	Conditioned Manaid	ST	04:01
Spoons	Young English Gentleman	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:35
Golden Calgarians	Galaxina	Savage Love	03:06
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
Zipper	Bad Girls	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:55
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Glamorcult	On The Line	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:04
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night (remix)	ST (mini album)	03:45
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Philip Rambow	Love is a Hard Time	Jungle Law	04:19
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
Corsage	Big Night Out (Single Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:11
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Tau Ceti	Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version)	So Far	05:23
Darkroom	Leave it to Heaven	San Paku	03:45
The Edge	Release the Circle	Release the Circle	04:36
Extras	Everytime I See Your Face	Bit Parts	02:33
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired (Live On Open Mike With Mike Bullard, Jan. 22 1999)	Rarities	03:51
Boys Brigade	Into the Flow	ST	05:09
Spunker (aka Neotone)	No More Walrus	Spunker	03:55
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Neon	Slaves	ST (EP)	03:00
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Pre-release	04:54
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	04:21
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald	Red to Black	03:52
Psyche	Twilight	The Influence	04:31
Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:56
David Raven & the Escorts	Somethin' in Our Way	David Raven And The Escorts	04:25
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Secret Act	My Neighbourhood	My Neighbourhood	05:51
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
Images In Vogue	In the House (Extended Dance Remix)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	08:25
Spoons	Game Above Your Head	Vertigo Tango	03:51
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	The Safety Dance	04:47
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (1985)	Mort en direct	07:10
Hush	Highway of Love	Replay	03:31
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Bündock	Pris par le temps	Société Anonyme	03:23

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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