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
Ross Angeles	Salute	Salute	01:53
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Open Window	Midnite News	03:33
Salty Seamen	Goddess of the Hunt	In The Groove At Last	02:30
The Idles	Wildcat	The Idles Demo	03:59
Boys Brigade	Saigon	ST	04:28
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Diodes	Polaroid	Action-Reaction	02:37
The Gas	Special This Week	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:14
Spoons	Snow Globes	New Day New World	03:32
Todd Stevens	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20
A Day in Paris	The Hill	Prey	04:38
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
True Confessions	Don't Go to Work on Me	ST	02:11
Spoons	Closing Credits	Static In Transmission	04:31
Redlife	Hope for Tomorrow	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:44
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
Blueprints	I Fell Down	Stare 01	03:35
Spoons	In the Hands of Money	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:43
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
Tyro	Strong Willed Woman	A Little More Time (EP)	02:27
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
Drama	A Kiss Without Lust	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:12
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Ordinary Man	04:18
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	A Neon Rome	05:44
NEO A4	Las Vegas	The Warmer Side of You	03:25
Psyche	The Saint Became a Lush	Unveiling The Secret	06:25
Spoons	Breaking In	Static In Transmission	04:34
Pointed Sticks	The Real Thing	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:31
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Psyche	Eternal	Mystery Hotel	04:15
NEO A4	One's Enough	ST	03:40
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Ohama aka The White Album	05:08
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29
Psyche	The Brain Collapses	Insomnia Theatre	04:09
Pukka Orchestra	Spies of the Heart	ST	02:50
DeMars	Véhiculation humaine	Les Télé-Têtes	04:54
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
DeMars	Déchéance	Les Télé-Têtes	03:41
A Fish in C	In Transit	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Corsage	Victory Square	ST	04:16
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:18
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another (1990)	Mort en direct	05:11
Tim Ray	Silent Partner (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:47
Vital Sines	Rhythm of Dark	Collage	05:34
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Government	Letter to Craig	Electric Eye	04:45
UJ3RK5	Hash Dreams of the Everyday Housewife	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:26
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Klō	Fun	Fun b/w Weirdo	04:53
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Martha And The Muffins	Cheesies and Gum	Metro Music	03:09
Secret Act	Our Little Secret	My Neighbourhood	04:36
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
Erect	She's a Bitch	Consequence of Life	03:14
Tim Ray	Standard Walk (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:25
Bruce PM	From Sparks to Embers	Makeshift	06:15
Villains	Laugh it Out	Go Crazy	03:54
True Confessions	Modern Girl	ST	03:03
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Teasers	I Love You	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:08
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Moral Support	Heart of Gold	Insanity	03:40
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Cannon Heath Down	Not Now	Heart-Throb Companion	02:15
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Kings	It's Okay	Are Here	02:55
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57
Generra	Girls in the Hearts	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	04:19
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Skoolboyz	Where's My Waitress?	ST (EP)	03:05
The Edge	Release the Circle	Release the Circle	04:36
NEO A4	Sex (For Love)	The Warmer Side of You	02:39
Images In Vogue	Flashing Black	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Pukka Orchestra	Miss Right	ST	03:32
Tim Ray	Garndmothers Parrot (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:16

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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