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
Cannon Heath Down	Fortunate	Heart-Throb Companion	01:22
Compilation	Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle	Toronto Calling	04:01
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Compilation	Jennifer Cauley - In Every Dream	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:45
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Inner Sanction	Runaway	Dancematic-Automatic	03:07
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
Moev	Took Out the Lace	Dusk and Desire	03:42
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
A Kid	Wrong and Bite	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	06:21
Figures At Dawn	Love Will Know	ST	03:50
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Boys Brigade	Melody	ST	04:04
Barking Boys	Cool It Down	The Yes Girls	04:11
Iko	Radioactive Mist	83	05:24
Figures At Dawn	Letters from London	ST	04:14
Tim Ray	Knockdown the Ashes (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:05
Rob Bryanton	Gimme a Beer!	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:22
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Glamorcult	The Fight Is Over	Shadows From The Past	04:10
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:58
Mobile Clones	The Pulse	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:45
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - Awful Medley	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:44
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Kinetic Ideals	Me and the Sky	A Personal View (EP)	05:50
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Fictions	I Let Go	ST	02:26
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle (1987)	Mort en direct	06:32
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
Handful of Snowdrops	S.G.B.P. (2nd Lineup Rehearsal Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:53
The Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
Modern Minds	Holly	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:59
Channel Five	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:17
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Scenics	Mony Mony	Underneath the Door	02:52
Cardboard Brains	And So I Hide	Live At The Edge	03:46
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Mannequin Demo	03:32
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Spoons	Time Stands Still	Talkback	05:00
Martha And The Muffins	Obedience	Danseparc	03:30
Spoons	Quiet World	Talkback	04:37
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - Essay - Me Dad	Toronto Calling	06:06
The End	Just Another Dream	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	04:04
Images In Vogue	Holiday	In The House	05:14
Ross Angeles	Hip Hip	Salute	02:21
Bruce PM	Radios and Cameras	Makeshift	03:58
Vital Sines	Fear of the Cold	Big Dark Dreams	03:41
DeMars	L'orgasme d'une planète	Les Télé-Têtes	02:48
Shock Culture	Brave New World	ST (EP)	03:14
Oui	People Talk	Oui	03:50
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Dada	I.D	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:29
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Age of Reason(able Pleasure)	White Guilt	04:42
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
Psyche	Unveiling the Secret	Unveiling The Secret	07:03
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	Midnite News	06:22
Villains	You Are (All These Things to Me)	Go Crazy	04:38
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Bunny & the Lakers	Inhalation - Ventilation	Numbers	02:07
NEO A4	Desire	The Warmer Side of You	04:02
Volts	Welcome	Plugged In	04:21
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Modern Minds	Substitute	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Rikki & The Rokkits	They Never See	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:23
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Bündock	Lover for Hire	Société Anonyme	03:25
Andrew Matheson	My Girls (Pin-Up Parade)	Monterey Shoes	03:52
Moral Support	Hold On to Time	Insanity	04:40
Pukka Orchestra	Power Cut	ST	05:13
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Government	Portrait	How Many Fingers?	02:36
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Hunger Project	Poland	Demo 1982	05:40
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
Lou Champagne System	Selling So Sweet	No Visible Means	02:48
Andre Beaupre	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II	03:16
Salt And the Choppers	I And You	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	02:41
Rational Youth	The Man in Grey	ST (mini album)	03:19
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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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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