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
Rave Revues	Living in the Shadows	Voices	04:07
Tim Ray	Garndmothers Parrot (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:16
The Idles	Heat Up	The Idles Demo	02:58
Bündock	Lover for Hire	Société Anonyme	03:25
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
DeMars	Déchéance	Les Télé-Têtes	03:41
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Modernes Pickles	Garbage	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:04
K	Sliding In	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	03:11
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	ST	03:41
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Tim Ray	Knockdown the Ashes (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:05
Moev	Remembrance Day	Zimmerkampf	05:23
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Spoons	Star Maps	Static In Transmission	04:05
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Extras	Sporting Life	The Road to Zambando	03:50
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Images In Vogue	Holiday (Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	04:16
Maja Bannerman	Knock On My Door	Songs by Maja Bannerman	01:56
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Blue Oil	Celebration	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:41
Spoons	The Opening Curtain	Vertigo Tango	04:21
ACTORS	Let it Grow	It Will Come to You	02:58
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Glamorcult	Who Am I	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:10
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Pale Blue	Therapy	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:53
Oui	Free from Body	Oui	03:01
Hot Tip	Bridge to Manhattan	Stop All Motion	03:05
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
The Idles	Foreign Son	The Idles Demo	03:53
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46
Modernes Pickles	Are You a Martian	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	04:03
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Blue Oil	Money	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:55
Null Set	Teats de Nuit	New Job (EP)	02:51
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Kaméléon	Les chats ballerines	ST	03:53
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Modernes Pickles	Chocolate Lady	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:21
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
Bündock	Never Trust	Société Anonyme	04:59
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
Images In Vogue	Foreign Affairs	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:59
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Martha And The Muffins	Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies	This Is The Ice Age	02:36
Doppler Bros.	Big Time Tragedy	Totally Impractical	03:36
Blue Oil	Innocent Boys	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:45
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Fictions	Praying for the World	ST	03:06
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
e	Idol Time	The Levitation Syndrome	03:26
Compilation	Sound FX - Shape Up	Saskatoon Rocks	03:19
Einstein	Mr. Science	Sex and Science	02:35
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
The Idles	Again and Again	The Idles Demo	02:54
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Andrew Matheson	Eyes of Harlem	Monterey Shoes	07:44
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Images In Vogue	One Way Heart	In The House	03:30
The Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Space and Time	04:49
Theo Vandenhoff	Eternity (Looking Skyward)	Collected EPs	06:54
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Rave Revues	Self Inflicted Wounds	Voices	03:06
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	04:49
Glamorcult	The Fight Is Over	Shadows From The Past	04:10
Images In Vogue	In the House	In The House	04:07
Secret Act	Our Little Secret	My Neighbourhood	04:36
Dis Band	Dance Clique	Gone Dead Out	04:51
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Annabelle's Room	Hopscotch	ST	04:41
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

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Eight Seconds - Big Houses

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Eight Seconds - Almacantar

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Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

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Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

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Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

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Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

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Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

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Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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