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
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Austra	The Villain	Feel it Break	04:06
Blue Peter	Out With the Boys	Test Patterns For Living	03:08
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
NEO A4	Is This It	The Warmer Side of You	03:32
The Voxx	Flower Boy DVB	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	04:47
Popular Front	Syncronized Swimming	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:51
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Darkroom	San Paku	San Paku	05:06
The Hurt	Engaged	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:11
Corsage	Baby Said	ST	03:37
Awake The Echoes	I Need Someone to Complain to	Normal Life	02:43
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Start	Bad Girl	Hey You	03:53
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
4th Floor	Black and White	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:37
Iko	Radioactive Mist	83	05:24
Melinite	When You Turn Again	Push The Button And Run!	03:12
Clooz	Leave Me Alone	Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do	03:36
Cottage Industry	Leader	The Winter's Tale	03:37
Popular Front	Christian Education	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:29
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Pre-release	04:54
Spoons	Camera Shy	Talkback	04:07
Villains	You Are (All These Things to Me)	Go Crazy	04:38
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
Spice	Beautiful You	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	03:23
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:25
Breeding Ground	Business	Obscurity And Flair	04:02
John Young Paul	Angels With Dirty Faces	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:33
Scenics	I Have You	Underneath the Door	02:07
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
The Front	Your Street	Underworld	04:10
I Braineater	Canada	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:23
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
B-Sides	Run and Hide	Red to Black	03:40
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
Hygiene Club	Girls at the Bank	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	02:05
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Rob Bryanton	Who's Got a Hold of the Wheel?	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:56
Moev	Took Out the Lace	Dusk and Desire	03:42
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
Diodes	Hot Sands	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:32
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Faded Films	Jack in the Box	Faded Years	05:06
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
Compilation	Don Bregg - Hypnotized	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:27
Voice	I Am the Walrus	Anno Di Voce	03:24
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
Rational Youth	No More and No Less	Heredity	04:06
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir II	Land of the Damned	01:01
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Tim Ray	Once or Twice (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:17
Drastic Measures	Hotsy Totsy - Postlude	ST	04:25
Government	Greetings from the Gutter (Reprise)	Electric Eye	00:50
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
Ralph Mashats	Irradies	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	03:54
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Handful of Snowdrops	Second by Second (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:47
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Psyche	Suffocation	Insomnia Theatre	03:10
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Spoons	New Day New World	New Day New World	03:32
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Government	Letter to Craig	Electric Eye	04:45
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Government	Sponge	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:22
Secret Act	Helpless	My Neighbourhood	04:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Dischordant Concensus	Midnite News	03:45
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
Scenics	Open Up Your Door	Underneath the Door	02:09
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
Mobile Clones	The Pulse	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:45
Boys Brigade	Black + White	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:46

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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