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
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night (remix)	ST (mini album)	03:45
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Informer	Hold It	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:12
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Ceramic Hello	Climatic Nouveaux	The Absence of a Canary	03:57
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
Velveteens	Love as a Rule	Tall House (EP)	03:03
Regulators	That´s Right Nothing's Left	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	02:53
Popular Front	Puppet Man	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:17
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58
David Raven & the Escorts	Keep On Burning	David Raven And The Escorts	03:49
Psyche	Twilight	The Influence	04:31
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Spoons	Nova Heart	Nova Heart b/w Symmetry	06:41
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
The Voxx	Flower Boy DVB	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	04:47
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Spoons	Unpremeditated Love	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:49
Shock Culture	Something to Dream	ST (EP)	04:03
Diodes	Rocket Over & Under	Action-Reaction	04:21
Absolute 9	Fence	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:00
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Streetcar Named Desire	Illustrated Man	Life Begins	05:25
Spoons	In the Hands of Money	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:43
Billy Butt & The Brats	Surveillance	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	03:21
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Redlife	Hope for Tomorrow	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:44
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Rolf Kempf	One More Time	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:26
S.Q	One Love	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:34
Tulpa	Apologize to Your Mother	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	04:29
Austra	The Choke	Feel it Break	04:12
e	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	03:37
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Fictions	Don't Look Down	ST	02:31
Volts	Never Enough	Plugged In	03:03
Psyche	Salvation Stranger	The Influence	03:54
The Scene (2)	I Am	Only in Paradise	04:14
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Glamorcult	She Doesn't Believe In The Magic	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Boys Brigade	Melody	Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee	04:06
The Front	Simple Dreams	Gina's at a Party	03:39
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Tim Ray	Walkin' the Tree (July, 1984)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:16
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
The Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Psyche	Prisoner to Desire	Unveiling The Secret	05:37
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Mannequin Demo	03:32
Spoons	Time Stands Still	Talkback	05:00
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Martha And The Muffins	Cheesies and Gum	Metro Music	03:09
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	Mannequin Demo	04:13
Drama	Old Hollywood	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:32
Diodes	Behind Those Eyes (Aug 1977 Crash 'N' Burn Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:42
Glamorcult	Past Glory (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	04:32
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Benjamin Russell	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Madman	02:30
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
Bobby and Synthia	Dig That Space	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:33
Volts	Loneliness in the Air Age	Plugged In	02:43
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
The Front	News to You	Underworld	05:11
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Quasi Hands	Lovelife	ST	03:01
Modernettes	(I Can Only Give You) Everything	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:22
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Kinetic Ideals	Me and the Sky	A Personal View (EP)	05:50
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:50
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
Klō	Try	Demo 1981	04:22
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Images In Vogue	So Careful (Extended Mix)	So Careful (Extended Mix)	07:17
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21

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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