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
Psyche	Unveiling the Secret	Unveiling The Secret	07:03
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
Spoons	Life On Demand	New Day New World	04:14
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
Philip Rambow	Beyond the Naked & the Dead	Jungle Law	03:11
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
I Braineater	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Insex	One	One (EP)	04:47
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
The Patterns	Afraid to Touch	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	03:57
Bobby and Synthia	Big Tits	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:44
The Hurt	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Compilation	Vera & The Poor Boys - Chameleon Girl	The Circuit	03:10
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	The Swimmer	ST	02:30
Spoons	Walk the Plank	Arias & Symphonies	04:26
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	Midnite News	03:30
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
I Braineater	Just a Boy	I Here, Where You	02:52
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Drama	Come On Over	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	02:57
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
Compilation	The Secrets - I'll Cry Tomorrow	No Pedestrians	03:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
John Young Paul	Summertime!	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:29
Glamorcult	Mine Is The Maiden	The Stone Sessions	04:16
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Barking Boys	Open City	The Yes Girls	04:07
Martha And The Muffins	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Breeding Ground	Reunion	Reunion // Slaughter	04:54
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
The Plugs	Sending An S.O.S.	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:21
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	04:44
Spoons	Nova Heart	Arias & Symphonies	05:46
Bicycle Thieves	Imperial Love	ST	04:07
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Promise	ST	04:31
Null Set	Rubber Wings	New Job (EP)	03:31
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Tim Ray	Scene a Fight (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:33
Spoons	Talk Back	Talkback	04:37
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Darkroom	Leave it to Heaven	San Paku	03:45
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
Benjamin Russell	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Madman	02:30
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Midnite News	05:25
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - Essay - Me Dad	Toronto Calling	06:06
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	Demo 1982	07:07
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
Compilation	Hygiene Club - Sea Monster	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:03
Spoons	Repeatable	New Day New World	03:54
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
Regulators	What's in the City	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	03:42
DeMars	Les télé-têtes	Les Télé-Têtes	04:41
Psyche	Eternal	Mystery Hotel	04:15
Glamatron	Passport (Instrumental)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:30
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Tim Ray	No Emotion (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:42
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
Glamorcult	Pins & Needles	A Price To Paris	03:16
100 Flowers	21st Guessing	21st Guessing	04:16
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Spoons	Star Maps	Static In Transmission	04:05
Age of Mirrors	Somewhere in Arabia	Screenplay	03:37
A Day in Paris	Goodbye	Prey	03:24
James Harcourt	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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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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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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Avril Chown - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

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Kultur - Kultur

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