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
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Compilation	A Carnival Night - Untitled	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:43
Breeding Ground	Wintergarden	Wintergarden (EP)	04:20
Corsage	Big Night Out (Doll & Penny's Trance Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	07:45
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
Austra	The Choke	Feel it Break	04:12
Handful of Snowdrops	Godhood (1989)	Mort en direct	04:44
Handful of Snowdrops	Charlatan (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:25
The Idles	Again and Again	The Idles Demo	02:54
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12
Pukka Orchestra	Your Secret is Safe With Me	ST	04:11
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
Blue Oil	Unwind	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:35
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Start	Bad Girl	Hey You	03:53
Benjamin Russell	Action and Reaction	Madman	02:14
Images In Vogue	In the House	In The House	04:07
Modern Minds	The End of a Dream	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:40
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Blue Oil	Stop Complaining	Blue Oil (1981-83)	04:22
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
Oui	Fight Back	Oui	03:46
4th Floor	Follow in Stride	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:16
Sebastian (Agnello)	Stop Picking On America	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:23
Escalators	Wooly Bully	ST	03:58
Tim Ray	No Emotion (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:42
DeMars	L'orgasme d'une planète	Les Télé-Têtes	02:48
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir II	Land of the Damned	01:01
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Government	Flat Tire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:25
e	Excerpt	Prime Cuts	02:09
Age of Mirrors	Orange Blossom Special	Mirage	04:00
Moral Lepers	Suicide	Turn to Stone	02:06
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
The Chemicals	Break Time	Break Time	03:03
Psyche	Ride On	Mystery Hotel	02:48
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
A Day in Paris	Prey	Prey	04:56
Broken Silence	Nightstalking	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:47
Glamorcult	Anna King	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	02:41
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Pre-release	03:30
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Pre-release	04:30
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Handful of Snowdrops	As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:06
Andrew Matheson	True Romance	Monterey Shoes	03:42
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Martha And The Muffins	Cheesies and Gum	Metro Music	03:09
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Start	Kids in the USA	Hey You	03:17
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind (OHMix)	Space and Time	04:55
Cinebar	Venus	Another Fine Day	03:43
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
DeMars	Try... You Can't	Les Télé-Têtes	03:56
Fictions	Won't Wash Away	ST	03:20
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	01:50
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Andre Beaupre	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II	03:16
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Lawn	Jet Pack	Peace in the Valley	05:41
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
Psyche	Caught in the Act	Unveiling The Secret	05:42
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Tim Ray	Love-Fusion	ST	03:50
Rin Tin Tin	Give Meech a Chance	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	03:11
Psyche	Uncivilized	Mystery Hotel	03:41
Andrew Matheson	My Girls (Pin-Up Parade)	Monterey Shoes	03:52
Erect	Weekend	Consequence of Life	02:41
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30

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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