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
Pukka Orchestra	Power Cut	ST	05:13
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32
The Scene (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another (1990)	Mort en direct	05:11
Rave Revues	Living in the Shadows	Voices	04:07
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
Compilation	True Confessions - Fourth Base	No Pedestrians	02:30
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Leavin' Tonite	No Pedestrians	02:05
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Boys Brigade	Portrait	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:45
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Modernes Pickles	Juvenile Jungle	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:26
Start	In Passion	Hey You	03:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News III	Midnite News	04:25
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Cottage Industry	Things Go Up	The Winter's Tale	03:34
Térapi	Rock'a'tchooka	Primale	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
Tenants	Reach Out	Visions of Our Future	03:29
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	02:49
Awake The Echoes	Always Something Wrong	Normal Life	03:59
Direktive 17	You’re Only Dreaming	ST (EP)	04:01
Spoons	Time Stands Still	Talkback	05:00
Compilation	Diatribe - Air Radio	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	03:34
Bangkok	Planet of My Own	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	03:04
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Glamorcult	I Tell Him	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:00
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
Spoons	Beautiful Trap	New Day New World	04:45
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Cannon Heath Down	Safe As Milk	Heart-Throb Companion	03:35
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
Instructions	Don't Say Love	ST	03:46
B-Sides	Emotions	Red to Black	04:11
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Motive	It’s Too Late	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:28
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	Heredity	03:13
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Benjamin Russell	Baby, This Is Love	Madman	02:04
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
State Of Mind	The Dark Side	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:45
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
Cardboard Brains	Jungles	Live At The Edge	02:17
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Faded Films	Jack in the Box	Faded Years	05:06
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
Hygiene Club	Hawaii	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:00
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Bunny & the Lakers	Sandy	Numbers	02:09
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
Modernes Pickles	Uranium Ore	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:32
Tim Ray	No Emotion (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:42
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Dandelions	Great Big Pictures	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	04:01
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
Martha And The Muffins	Monotone	Metro Music	02:46
Compilation	The Rhythm Kingz - Drums of Change (K. Gariepy, N. Minotti)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:35
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Glamorcult	Anna King	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	02:41
Bumpers	Media Music	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:30
David Raven & the Escorts	Keep On Burning	David Raven And The Escorts	03:49
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Diodes	Parasite (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	03:17
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Educated Man	04:36
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Glamorcult	She Touched My Soul	Early Glamour	04:50
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Compilation	Instructions - Tell-A-Photo	The Circuit	04:42
Johnny Zhivago	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
Glamorcult	Thing Of Beauty	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got A Reason And You've Got A Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Klō	Try	Demo 1981	04:22

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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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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