New Wave Post Punk Wave

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
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Feelings Feel Ohama aka The White Album
NEO A4 Don't Believe The Warmer Side of You
Martha And The Muffins Three Hundred Years - Chemistry This Is The Ice Age
Pointed Sticks The Real Thing The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck
39 Steps Priscilla All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Salty Seamen Neanderthal In The Groove At Last
Broken Silence Through the Glass Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)
Men Without Hats Where do Boys Go BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A
Austra The Beast Feel it Break
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Part in Peace I Fear What I Might Hear
Kinetic Ideals I Remember Touch Me (Now)
Philip Rambow Snakes And Ladders Jungle Law
Living End (1) Naive ST
Vis-A-Vis Dance With Me Heart and Soul
NEO A4 Only a Fool ST
UJ3RK5 Booty Dread Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Frost In June Catch the Light Catch The Light
Tenants What's In It For Me? ST
IQ Sixth World Burn Me b/w Sixth World
The Scene (2) I Am Only in Paradise
Martha And The Muffins Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road? Danseparc
Compilation The Sharks - Get Off the Radio No Pedestrians
Drastic Measures Silk Stockings ST
Lunasam Redhead Redhead
Entrance System Swoon Imperfect Image
Darkroom In Dim light San Paku
Numbers Leave it to Me Add Up
Einstein Bedroom Mirror Rock Star Sex and Science
Images In Vogue Politics of Sound Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) The Call Ohama aka The White Album
Tau Ceti San Francisco So Far
Class Info I Want Inside
Trespassing Bean Rays Heer Comes the Future ST (EP) (picture sleeve)
Spoons Tidal Wave Bridges Over Borders
Start State of Her Shine Hey You
Cannon Heath Down A Charming Sound Heart-Throb Companion
Rational Youth Holiday in Bangkok ST (mini album)
Glen Meadmore Gotta Thing Chicken & Biscuits
Einstein Fire of My Loins Sex and Science
Rex Chainbelt Foreign Movie Foreign Movie
Voice I Am the Walrus Anno Di Voce
Benjamin Russell Pop Modern(e) Pop Modern(e)
Null Set Judgement Days New Job (EP)
Rational Youth In Your Eyes Heredity
Glamorcult Loneliness (Instrumental) Early Glamour
Government How Many Fingers? How Many Fingers?
Strange Advance Reprise "Worlds Away" Worlds Away
Rave Revues Self Inflicted Wounds Voices
Bündock Season for Love Société Anonyme
Erect Cry of a Leo Consequence of Life
Glen Meadmore Lovin' In My Oven Chicken & Biscuits
Vital Sines Collage Collage
Cinebar Venus Another Fine Day
Family Plot Dervish Convictions
Handful of Snowdrops A Short Story (1985) Mort en direct
Austra Spellwork Feel it Break
A Day in Paris déjà vu Rhymes On Vinyl
Awake The Echoes Always Something Wrong Normal Life
Tribal Earth Who You Are (In the Movies) Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)
Austra The Noise Feel it Break
The Voxx Flower Boy Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB
David Raven & the Escorts Keep On Burning David Raven And The Escorts
Hot Tip Bridge to Manhattan Stop All Motion
Regulators What's in the City What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Don't Be Afraid Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Drastic Measures T.N.T. ST
Compilation The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X) Strange Pleasures EP
Austra Hate Crime Feel it Break
Martha And The Muffins Luna Park Trance and Dance
Psyche Children Carry Knives Insomnia Theatre
Blueprints I Fell Down Stare 01
Cottage Industry The Crucial Moment The Winter's Tale
UJ3RK5 Booty Dread ST (EP)
Glamorcult Start The Revolution The Stone Sessions
Ohm & the Secret Sources You Know I Love You Space and Time
Ohm & the Secret Sources Planet Nine Space and Time
Cottage Industry The Point on a Hill The Winter's Tale
Erect The Colony We Are Police b/w The Colony
Rational Youth Just a Sound in the Night Cold War Nightlife
A Day in Paris Prey Prey
Handful of Snowdrops Alice in Wonderland (1992) Mort en direct
Null Set Rubber Wings New Job (EP)
Moev Madhatter Zimmerkampf
Handful of Snowdrops As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Velveteens Flies Tall House (EP)
39 Steps Someday is Today [original] All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Tenants Winner ST
Spoons Walk the Plank Arias & Symphonies
Volts Loneliness in the Air Age Plugged In
Villains Laylow Go Crazy
Compilation Don Bregg - Sounds So Nice Music Industry Arts 1983
The Front Underworld Underworld
Ohm & the Secret Sources Mad at the World Space and Time
Rikki & The Rokkits New Wave New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)
Tim Ray Now What Was That ST
Fictions Won't Wash Away ST
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Rock 'N' Roll Ohama aka The White Album
Drastic Measures Big Town Boy (Shirley Matthews) ST
Diodes That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979) Rarities
Glen Meadmore Just a Girl Chicken & Biscuits

ST

Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST MINT BACK

Tim Ray

Tame & Talking

ST

Big Dark Dreams

Subway Suicide E.P.

Vital Sines

Collage

Vital Sines - Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)

Vital Sines – Subway Suicide E.P. (2)

Vital Sines – Subway Suicide E.P. (1)

Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams INSERT SIDE 02

Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams INSERT SIDE 01

Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams BACK

ST

Tim in NY in 1986. Pix by Susan Fensten,

Tim in NY in 1986. Pix by Susan Fensten.

Tim Ray (5)

Tim Ray (6)

Tim Ray (3)

Tim Ray (2)

Photos, by Steve Josephson. These were taken at The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, B.C. - May 8, 1978. Opening up for Patti Smith.

Tim Ray

Plugged In

Volts

Volts - Plugged In BACK

Tim Ray - ST BACK

This Fear

This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination INSERT SIDE 02

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