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
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57
Trespassing Bean Rays	Eclipse	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	01:24
Mobile Clones	The Pulse	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:45
Darkroom	Don't Talk	San Paku	03:32
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Pukka Orchestra	This Sordid Thing Called Love	The Palace Of Memeory	04:17
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Kaméléon	Microcosme	ST	03:40
Government	Portrait	How Many Fingers?	02:36
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Drama	Loneliness	Loneliness	03:28
Spoons	You Light Up	Static In Transmission	04:23
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Me And the Mosquitos	Go Away	Go Away b/w Valium	03:43
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
John Young Paul	Our Time Escapes	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:09
NEO A4	Is This It	The Warmer Side of You	03:32
Absolute 9	Love and Work	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:48
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Open Window	Midnite News	03:33
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Inner Sanction	Mystery & Harmony	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:41
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Darkroom	Some Stories Never Change	San Paku	05:24
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Glamorcult	Carry the Water	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:47
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
The Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:51
Psyche	Wake the Flood Unconscious	Mystery Hotel	02:53
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Breeding Ground	Reflections (In a Coffee Cup)	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:21
Spoons	Sooner or Later	Vertigo Tango	03:44
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Andrew Matheson	It Only Hurts When I Cry	Monterey Shoes	03:25
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a T.V. Set	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	05:08
Blue Oil	From the Heart	Blue Oil (1981-83)	01:48
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
Lawn	Beluger	Peace in the Valley	03:46
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Spoons	Capitol Hill	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:37
Spoons	Like a Memory	Bridges Over Borders	03:47
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Contradance	Professional Dads	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	03:40
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
Age of Mirrors	Glass and Crystal Lives	Screenplay	04:16
Bicycle Thieves	First Aid to the Injured	ST	03:35
Awake The Echoes	Captive Heart	Normal Life	03:06
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Modernes Pickles	I Want More Slack	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:31
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
Kinetic Ideals	Windchimes	Touch Me (Now)	13:46
NEO A4	Sex (For Love)	The Warmer Side of You	02:39
Bangkok	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	02:13
Age of Mirrors	Simple Gift of Love	Mirage	03:05
Kings	My Habit	Are Here	03:41
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Drastic Measures	The Teddy Bear's Picnic	ST	02:21
S.Q	One Love	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:34
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	Midnite News	03:44
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
Glamatron	Factor 2-2-2	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:53
Klō	The Parking Lot Song	No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song	02:08
Tulpa	Apologize to Your Mother	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	04:29
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Melinite	For Now	Push The Button And Run!	03:37
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Bunny & the Lakers	Maid in Sweden	Numbers	04:01
Dorian Gray	Perfect Killing Machine	Perfect Killing Machine b/w When Worship Hits the Fan	03:48
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Popular Front	Puppet Man	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Kinetic Ideals	Structures	Reason (EP)	04:47
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
100 Flowers	Pam	21st Guessing	03:33
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle (1987)	Mort en direct	06:32
Modernes Pickles	Deathrace 2000	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:44
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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