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
Decade of Dreams	Sarah	Wild Colloquial	02:26
Figures At Dawn	Letters from London	ST	04:14
Red Herring	The Crab Song	Taste Tests	03:57
Klō	Try	Demo 1981	04:22
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Spoons	Rodeo	Bridges Over Borders	04:12
Corsage	St. John's Wood (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:49
Iko	Radioactive Mist	83	05:24
B-Sides	Late at Night	Red to Black	03:28
DeMars	Le fou sur l'île	Les Télé-Têtes	04:04
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
B-Sides	State of Emergency	Red to Black	04:22
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Handful of Snowdrops	Chemical Engineering (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:22
Streetcar Named Desire	A Month of Sundays	Life Begins	04:36
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Tim Ray	Now What Was That	ST	02:58
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Martha And The Muffins	Swimming	This Is The Ice Age	03:54
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
ACTORS	XYX	Reanimated	03:44
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Breeding Ground	Love Rectangle	Obscurity And Flair	04:08
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
David Raven & the Escorts	Dance Dance Dance	David Raven And The Escorts	02:22
Tabby K	Wind Or Water	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Dischordant Concensus	Midnite News	03:45
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Buddy King & the Motion!	I Didn't Know Her	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:14
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	01:50
Drama	Old Hollywood	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:32
The Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Spoons	Like a Memory	Bridges Over Borders	03:47
Compilation	True Confessions - Fourth Base	No Pedestrians	02:30
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
Boys Brigade	Saigon	ST	04:28
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower and the Hippies	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:48
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Tenants	Reach Out	Visions of Our Future	03:29
Scenics	In the Summer	Underneath the Door	03:53
Glamorcult	Live For Today	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:38
John Young Paul	Summertime!	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:29
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
DeMars	Le zaratt express	Les Télé-Têtes	04:11
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
Tyro	Told You	A Little More Time (EP)	03:28
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
NEO A4	If it Was You	ST	04:41
Minutes From Downtown	Heaven Street	ST	04:35
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
The Idles	Foreign Son	The Idles Demo	03:53
Benjamin Russell	Take Me As You Find Me	Madman	02:25
The Scene (2)	What I Need	Only in Paradise	05:28
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Kinetic Ideals	Life in Shadow	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	02:57
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
ACTORS	Exploded View	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:33
Pukka Orchestra	Flies (as Big as Your Fist)	ST	03:13
The Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
Glamorcult	Dream Girl to Me	Early Glamour	03:28
Inner Sanction	Runaway	Dancematic-Automatic	03:07
Klō	You're Chic	Demo 1981	05:34
The Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Spoons	Star Maps	Static In Transmission	04:05
Men Without Hats	Security (Everybody Feels Better With)	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:57
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Don't Wanna Hear This Song	Spunker	02:16
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Age of Mirrors	Civilian of Discipline	Mirage	04:47
Strange Advance	Hold On to the Nite	Worlds Away	04:34
Bunny & the Lakers	Maid in Sweden	Numbers	04:01
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Spoons	The First & Last Time	New Day New World	04:54
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Bleu Néon	Survivance	Cité Promise	08:24
Glamorcult	The Light	Atlantis Under the Sea	03:49
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Tim Ray	Garndmothers Parrot (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:16
ACTORS	Cold Eyes	Acts of Worship	03:24
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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