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
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix)	Strange Pleasures EP	09:34
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Extras	The Watcher	The Watcher (EP)	05:18
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Glamorcult	Thing Of Beauty	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Kinetic Ideals	No Exit	Reason (EP)	05:39
Erect	Cry of a Leo	Consequence of Life	02:48
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
Kings	Anti Hero man	Are Here	03:26
Cinebar	Venus	Another Fine Day	03:43
Modernes Pickles	Are You a Martian	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	04:03
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	Mannequin Demo	04:13
Psyche	Suffocation	Insomnia Theatre	03:10
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Handful of Snowdrops	Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:36
Kaméléon	Les chats balerines (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:01
Spoons	Through the Hazy	Vertigo Tango	04:04
Tim Ray	Lost Lagoon (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:52
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:10
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Bonus Boys	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	02:17
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Einstein	Bedroom Mirror Rock Star	Sex and Science	04:03
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Red Herring	The Crab Song	Taste Tests	03:57
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
Spoons	2,000 Years	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
NEO A4	Rescue Me	ST	03:59
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Numbers	She's Got Everything	Add Up	02:38
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:28
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
Fictions	Dimestore Romance	ST	03:44
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
DeMars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Télé-Têtes	03:48
John Lutz T.	Kiss And Tell	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	02:10
James Harcourt	Moment of Madness	Emotional Blackmail	03:03
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Images In Vogue	One Way Heart	In The House	03:30
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Crusaders	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	03:49
Drama	Come On Over	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	02:57
A Day in Paris	Under	Prey	04:21
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Bangkok	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	02:13
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	03:18
Spoons	New Day New World II	New Day New World	02:01
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Living End (1)	The Procession	ST	04:40
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Streetcar Named Desire	World War Son	Life Begins	04:28
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
Bruce PM	More Joyful Noise	Makeshift	03:31
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
No Comment	Wondering	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:33
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Rational Youth	Freeze	Heredity	05:00
Benjamin Russell	Action and Reaction	Madman	02:14
Fictions	Fixation	ST	03:19
John Young Paul	Is That Why?	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:07
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	A Neon Rome	05:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
Spoons	No Electrons	Arias & Symphonies	05:12
Bunny & the Lakers	Sandy	Numbers	02:09
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Me And the Mosquitos	Valium	Go Away b/w Valium	03:03
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	04:49
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
Family Plot	Gravedigger	Convictions	02:19
Modernes Pickles	Love Me	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:01
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Compilation	Vital Sines - Come and Buy Your Miracle	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:31
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
The Scene (2)	Come of Age	Only in Paradise	05:36

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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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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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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