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
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Figures At Dawn	It Doesn't Matter	ST	04:31
The Front	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
Government	Flat Tire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:25
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Breeding Ground	Turn to Dust	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:20
Tim Ray	All Sane (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	01:50
Psyche	Unveiling the Secret	Unveiling The Secret	07:03
39 Steps	Always Tomorrow	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:37
Spoons	Young English Gentleman	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:35
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
Secret Act	Helpless	My Neighbourhood	04:14
Villains	Go Crazy	Go Crazy	03:17
Kaméléon	Anachronisme	ST	04:14
Compilation	The Dave Howard Singers - They Come They Go	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:33
Bunny & the Lakers	Weekend Guests	Numbers	01:57
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Secret Act	Heaven	My Neighbourhood	04:12
Handful of Snowdrops	Second by Second (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:47
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Family Plot	Wings of Fate	Convictions	04:02
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Ohama aka The White Album	04:16
Handful of Snowdrops	When Comes Daylight	Land of the Damned	05:01
Government	I'm Somebody	Electric Eye	01:36
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Tim Ray	Dying in Brooklyn (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:40
Null Set	Teats de Nuit	New Job (EP)	02:51
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Glamorcult	A Price to Paris	A Price To Paris	04:31
Land of Giants	I Got You Babe	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:17
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	05:12
Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
Glamorcult	Past Glory	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Pointed Sticks	The Real Thing	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:31
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
Tim Ray	Standard Walk (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:25
Kaméléon	Pique-nique (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	02:22
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Martha And The Muffins	Paint By Number Heart	Metro Music	03:28
Spoons	New Day New World II	New Day New World	02:01
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
Moev	Alibis	Dusk and Desire	04:37
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:30
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
Martha And The Muffins	Hide and Seek	Metro Music	03:58
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
Vis-A-Vis	I am the Night	Heart and Soul	03:40
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Modern Minds	Punk Violence	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:16
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Rob Bryanton	Gimme a Beer!	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:24
39 Steps	Hit It Up	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:14
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
Reasons	Boy He's Got a Girl	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:52
Diodes	Burn Down Your Daddy's House	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:16
Melinite	For Now	Push The Button And Run!	03:37
Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Popular Front	Christian Education	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:29
Boys Brigade	Exodus	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:12
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Spoons	Bridges Over Borders	Bridges Over Borders	05:02
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Psyche	Illusion	The Influence	04:26
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
Handful of Snowdrops	As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:06
Secret Act	Poor Boy	My Neighbourhood	03:36
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
Spoons	Repeatable	New Day New World	03:54
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
NEO A4	Rescue Me	ST	03:59
Popular Front (1)	Living On the Line	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	03:48
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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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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The Idles - The Idles Demo

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Hunger Project - Demo 1982

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Hunger Project - The Same Inside b/w Assembly

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Boys Brigade - Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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