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
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Benjamin Russell	Shadows Dancing	Pop Modern(e)	04:15
S.Q	One Love	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:34
3rd Man In	What to Believe	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:43
Todd Stevens	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20
Entrance System	Swoon	Imperfect Image	04:05
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Deserters	Americans	ST	03:03
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Volts	While You Can	Plugged In	03:41
The Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
Images In Vogue	Save It	In The House	03:38
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Spoons	Talk Back	Talkback	04:37
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Benjamin Russell	Teresa	Madman	04:15
Rob Bryanton	Livin' On the Edge of the World	Alcohol And Other Drugs	05:10
Modernes Pickles	Chocolate Lady	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:21
Bora Bora	Starting Over	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	04:23
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
Awake The Echoes	Captive Heart	Normal Life	03:06
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
Compilation	Instructions - Tell-A-Photo	The Circuit	04:42
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Martha And The Muffins	Women Around the World at Work	This Is The Ice Age	03:59
Modernes Pickles	Sweet Jenny	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:07
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:57
Boys Brigade	The Cut Up (Breaking Glass)	Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee	04:27
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
Iko	Gonado Tropic Synthesis	83	07:18
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:51
Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:51
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Scissors	Nadine	ST	02:03
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
Pukka Orchestra	The Deserter	ST	00:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	Midnite News	03:30
Braineaters	London Town	Planet X	01:24
Diodes	Parasite (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	03:17
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
Men Without Hats	Mothers	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	12:07
Benjamin Russell	Miracle	Pop Modern(e)	05:28
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Austra	The Choke	Feel it Break	04:12
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Modernes Pickles	I'm in Love with the Super Friends	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:42
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Corsage	Monument	Big Night Out (EP)	01:25
Entrance System	Tower Talk	Imperfect Image	05:53
Psyche	The Influence	The Influence	04:17
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Glen Meadmore	Lovin' In My Oven	Chicken & Biscuits	04:07
Drama	Old Hollywood	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:32
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Images In Vogue	Rescue Me	In The House	03:49
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Drastic Measures	The Teddy Bear's Picnic	ST	02:21
Modern Minds	Out of Luck (Pointed Sticks)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:55
Andrew Matheson	Tender is the Night	Monterey Shoes	05:51
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Cannon Heath Down	Fortunate	Heart-Throb Companion	01:22
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
Moral Lepers	Dead of Night	Turn to Stone	03:59
Bündock	Pris par le temps	Société Anonyme	03:23
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Moev	Feline Frauline	Zimmerkampf	02:46
The Scene (2)	What I Need	Only in Paradise	05:28
I Braineater	Gastly Dance	I Here, Where You	01:26
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Compilation	Arson - We've Gotta Get Out of this Place	No Pedestrians	04:26
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Tenants	Reach Out	Visions of Our Future	03:29
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
Compilation	The Secrets - I'll Cry Tomorrow	No Pedestrians	03:11
Compilation	Breeding Ground - Thin Red Line	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:08
Lawn	Shady Street	Peace in the Valley	03:59
Glamorcult	Anna King	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	02:41
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55

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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