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
DeMars	Le rêveur egaré	Les Télé-Têtes	04:06
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
Spoons	Stop	Talkback	03:16
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Boys Brigade	Touch Glass	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:25
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes I Fear	Ohama aka The White Album	04:25
The Scene (2)	Come of Age	Only in Paradise	05:36
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Blue Oil	Innocent Boys	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:45
Braineaters	Johnny	Planet X	06:03
Diodes	Action Re-action	Action-Reaction	03:18
Psyche	Dreamstreet	Mystery Hotel	05:18
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
Spoons	Beautiful Trap	New Day New World	04:45
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Educated Man	04:36
Extras	Never a Headache	The Road to Zambando	03:58
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Generra	Girls in the Hearts	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	04:19
Maja Bannerman	Knock On My Door	Songs by Maja Bannerman	01:56
Scissors	Summer Girls	ST	02:18
Martha And The Muffins	Be Blase	Trance and Dance	02:42
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
Spoons	Radio Heaven	Bridges Over Borders	03:57
Compilation	Breeding Ground - Thin Red Line	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:08
Instructions	Naked Deer	ST	02:49
Living End (1)	The Procession	ST	04:40
The Front	Simple Dreams	Gina's at a Party	03:39
Images In Vogue	Foreign Affairs	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:59
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53
Eight Seconds	Where's Bula	Almacantar	04:38
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mr. Crystal	Space and Time	05:32
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Modernettes	(I Can Only Give You) Everything	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:22
Bangkok	Planet of My Own	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	03:04
Einstein	Truck-Stop Girls	Sex and Science	03:24
Tenants	Look the Other Way	ST	03:25
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Kaméléon	Anachronisme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midway	Midway b/w Thin Lines	06:29
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Ordinary Man	04:56
One Hand Clapping	Angry Weather	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	04:23
Suns of One	Freedom Time	Freedom Time	04:02
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Kinetic Ideals	In a Second	A Personal View (EP)	06:59
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	Midnite News	03:30
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
The Plugs	I Saw Her Today	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:04
Living End (1)	Is it Murder	ST	03:34
Cardboard Brains	Summertime!	Live At The Edge	03:31
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
The Front	The Truth Hurts	Gina's at a Party	03:13
Popular Front (1)	This is the Rubicon	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Modernes Pickles	Diamond Nite	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:51
Insex	One	One (EP)	04:47
Andrew Matheson	Johnny Lets Run	Monterey Shoes	03:49
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
DeMars	Try... You Can't	Les Télé-Têtes	03:56
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Midway b/w Thin Lines	04:07
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Ordinary Man	04:18
Reasons	Playing With Your Heart	Reasonable Rock (EP)	03:53
Lorne Ranger	I Want to be a Doorman	I Want to be a Doorman	04:02
Skoolboyz	Where's My Waitress?	ST (EP)	03:05
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
Deserters	Innervisions	ST	03:34
Boys Brigade	Exodus	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:12
Age of Mirrors	Reunion	Screenplay	04:14
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
Pukka Orchestra	Knocking On Open Doors	The Palace Of Memeory	03:56
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
The Idles	Slow Down	The Idles Demo	02:18
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Kultur	Crusader	Kultur	03:02
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53

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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