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
Strange Advance	Reprise "Worlds Away"	Worlds Away	01:35
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Spoons	2,000 Years	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
Pukka Orchestra	Rubber Girl	ST	04:34
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Extras	The Watcher	The Watcher (EP)	05:18
Numbers	Leave it to Me	Add Up	03:56
Kaméléon	Microcosme	ST	03:40
Kings	It's Okay	Are Here	02:55
The Scene (2)	I Am	Only in Paradise	04:14
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
Decade of Dreams	The Bridge	Wild Colloquial	03:31
Popular Front	The Touch	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:32
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
Tame & Talking	Fashion Fit	ST	04:08
Men Without Hats	Antarctica	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:25
Teasers	Love Me Like You Did Last Night	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:53
Spoons	Paint by Number Day	New Day New World	04:34
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Glamorcult	Interlude	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Handful of Snowdrops	Remedy (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:34
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Modernettes	Static	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:54
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
Austra	The Villain	Feel it Break	04:06
Darkroom	Don't Talk	San Paku	03:32
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Drama	This Time	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	04:13
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Tim Ray	Mondo Cane (July, 1984)	History Lessons 1978-1984	04:44
Preison's Shade	Don't Leave Me Alone	Race Me Home (EP)	05:11
Glamorcult	I Will Still Be There	The Stone Sessions	04:05
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
Kreemers	At The El Mocambo	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	02:48
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58
Philip Rambow	A Star (In Her Own Right)	Jungle Law	03:31
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Tim Ray	I'm Waiting (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:00
The Play	Atlantic City	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:30
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Flying Goodbye	Ohama aka The White Album	03:45
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Hygiene Club	Sea Monster	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:10
Diodes	That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979)	Rarities	04:27
100 Flowers	He and She	21st Guessing	04:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	TV	Ohama aka The White Album	04:33
Buddy King & the Motion!	I Didn't Know Her	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:14
Scenics	Do the Wait	Underneath the Door	02:13
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Hot Tip	Fast Boys	Stop All Motion	03:23
Rational Youth	Latin Lovers	ST (mini album)	03:51
Thieves	I See Red	I See Red	04:27
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
Government	Plaza del Pimps	How Many Fingers?	03:13
Pukka Orchestra	Might as Well be on Mars	ST	05:05
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Martha And The Muffins	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Tin Twist	Sitting Here, Waiting Here	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	02:32
Rob Bryanton	Everybody Feels Some Pain	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:45
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
Klō	Dreaming	Demo 1982	03:54
Melinite	Another Attempt	Push The Button And Run!	02:27
Contradance	She's Got an Eyepiece	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	04:19
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:51
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Compilation	Vital Sines - Come and Buy Your Miracle	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:31
Interpol	Chocolate Covered Killer Bees	ST	03:20
Blue Oil	Celebration	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:41
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Bündock	Never Trust	Société Anonyme	04:59
Popular Front	Christian Education	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:29
e	Idol Time	The Levitation Syndrome	03:26
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Rex Chainbelt	Bruised & Beaten	Foreign Movie	02:30
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	01:50
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Numbers	Out to You	Add Up	02:27
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18
Drama	Come On Over	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	02:57
Rob Bryanton	We Are All Chemicals	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:28

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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