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
Bobby and Synthia	Big Tits	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:44
Images In Vogue	Welcome to Sorrow	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:07
Glamorcult	Start The Revolution	The Stone Sessions	04:03
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
Glamorcult	Past Glory (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	04:32
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
This Fear	Lights of Capitals	Darkness Shapes Imagination	03:50
James Harcourt	Eye of the Needle	Emotional Blackmail	02:54
David Raven & the Escorts	Keep On Burning	David Raven And The Escorts	03:49
Glamorcult	S.O.S.	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
B-Sides	Late at Night	Red to Black	03:28
Handful of Snowdrops	Second by Second (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:47
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
Salty Seamen	Sweet Yolanda	In The Groove At Last	03:30
Darkroom	In Dim light	San Paku	03:34
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Pukka Orchestra	Miss Right	ST	03:32
Vital Sines	Rhythm of Dark	Collage	05:34
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
Reasons	The Fall	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:59
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
The Play	Midnight Dreams	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:12
Drastic Measures	The Teddy Bear's Picnic	ST	02:21
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Keys	Lied To!	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	02:18
Moral Support	Living With Passion	Insanity	03:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11
Modern Minds	Love to Me	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:32
Tribal Earth	Got to Move	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	04:09
NEO A4	Look to Your Heart	The Warmer Side of You	03:47
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
I Before E	Power of Reason	Power of Reason b/w Cocktails	02:23
Bruce PM	Well, Yes	Makeshift	04:45
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Spice	Beautiful You	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	03:23
Spunker (aka Neotone)	No More Walrus	Spunker	03:55
Images In Vogue	In the House	In The House	04:07
Benjamin Russell	Boffo	Madman	02:12
Nasty Habits	Playing in the Danger Zone	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:07
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another (1990)	Mort en direct	05:11
Corsage	Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:22
Spoons	Stop	Talkback	03:16
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
Braineaters	Johnny	Planet X	06:03
Spoons	Nova Heart	Nova Heart b/w Symmetry	06:41
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Dischordant Concensus	Midnite News	03:45
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Escalators	Double Talk	ST	05:17
Within Gothic Towers	Will I Hope To Love	Within Gothic Towers	05:44
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Térapi	Rock'a'tchooka	Primale	03:16
Thieves	Police Squad	I See Red	03:27
Rational Youth	I Want To See the Light	I Want to See the Light	03:55
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Deserters	Alien	ST	03:43
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
John Lutz T.	Kiss And Tell	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	02:10
NEO A4	Is This It	The Warmer Side of You	03:32
Quasi Hands	Keep Moving	ST	02:48
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
Melinite	When You Turn Again	Push The Button And Run!	03:12
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
John Young Paul	Summertime!	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:29
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Entrance System	Tower Talk	Imperfect Image	05:53
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Mobile Clones	Present Age	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:24
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:10
Handful of Snowdrops	Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:58
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Klō - Demo 1981

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Demo 1982

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Jon Mullane - Following Yesterday

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Entrance System - Imperfect Image

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Shock Culture - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Tame & Talking - ST

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Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide E.P.

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Vital Sines - Collage

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Tim Ray - ST

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Volts - Plugged In

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This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination

Tenants - ST

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