New Wave Post Punk Wave

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
Eight Seconds Moving Day Big Houses
Klō Baby Wants a Baby Demo 1981
Modernes Pickles Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985
The Play Midnight Dreams Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City
Glamorcult The Basis of Our Style Early Glamour
Shanghai Lil Nirvana - Oh What a Night Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night
B-Sides Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm) Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)
Erect She's a Bitch Consequence of Life
Erect We Are Police Consequence of Life
Einstein Body & Mind Sex and Science
I Braineater 7Teen Artist, Poet, Thief
Modernes Pickles I Want More Slack Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) T.V. Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.
Compilation Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight The Circuit
Family Plot Taxi Driver Convictions
DeMars Déchéance Les Télé-Têtes
Figures At Dawn Letters from London ST
Secret Act Northern Spy My Neighbourhood
Golden Calgarians Sex Under Missiles Savage Love
Kaméléon Microcosme ST
Glamorcult Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track) A Price To Paris
Glen Meadmore Gotta Thing Chicken & Biscuits
Palace at 4 a.m. The Man Who Never Sleeps Untamed World
UJ3RK5 Locator Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Strange Advance Automatic Sighs Worlds Away
Villains You Are (All These Things to Me) Go Crazy
B-Sides Regular Guy Red to Black
Kinetic Ideals Angular Sky Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)
The Diodes That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979) Rarities
Boys Brigade Exodus ST
Decade of Dreams A Conversation With Myself Wild Colloquial
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Dischordant Concensus Midnite News
Jon Mullane Destiny Following Yesterday
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) I Tie My Shoes Ohama aka The White Album
Pukka Orchestra Knocking On Open Doors The Palace Of Memeory
Handful of Snowdrops Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Psyche Twilight The Influence
Bunny & the Lakers Shrieks From the Peeks Numbers
Vital Sines Rhythm of Dark Collage
Land of Giants Thing Called Love Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks
Tulpa Apologize to Your Mother Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)
Maja Bannerman Black Sheep Songs by Maja Bannerman
Martha And The Muffins Teddy the Dink Trance and Dance
NEO A4 Say This to Me ST
True Confessions Modern Girl ST
Living End (1) Better Pictures ST
Kinetic Ideals Structures Reason (EP)
Handful of Snowdrops Shadows on the Heart Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
DeMars Even for All Those Years Stories from between the Walls
Bruce PM From Sparks to Embers Makeshift
100 Flowers Darkness 21st Guessing
Corsage Royal Couple ST
Fictions I Let Go ST
Compilation Winston Hancock - Girls, Girls No Pedestrians
Spunker (aka Neotone) You Don't Wanna Hear This Song Spunker
Modernes Pickles Forest Fires Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985
Spoons Red Light Stick Figure Neighbourhood
Psyche Unveiling the Secret Unveiling The Secret
Handful of Snowdrops From One Place to Another Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Modernes Pickles Destination Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985
Mobile Clones Motionless Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)
D.A.R.Y.L. Time 2 Start Again Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)
Eight Seconds Thorn in My Side Big Houses
I Braineater Sacred Cow Artist, Poet, Thief
Within Gothic Towers Is This My Moment Of Glory Within Gothic Towers
Tau Ceti Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version) So Far
Voice Business as Usual in Beirut Anno Di Voce
The Keys Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)
Tim Ray Knockdown the Ashes (September, 1980) History Lessons 1978-1984
Pukka Orchestra Weekend (Come Alive!) The Palace Of Memeory
Handful of Snowdrops A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Spoons Beautiful Trap New Day New World
Pukka Orchestra Listen to the Radio ST
Lou Champagne System Selling So Sweet No Visible Means
Golden Calgarians It's OK Savage Love
NEO A4 Rescue Me ST
Drama A Kiss Without Lust Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)
Insex One One (EP)
Glamorcult Tokyo Streets Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
The Front You Can't Do That Underworld
B-Sides Emotions Red to Black
Kinetic Ideals Me and the Sky A Personal View (EP)
Einstein Incognito Sex and Science
3rd Man In New Fast New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)
The Patterns Always Sixteen Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen
Glamorcult Pins & Needles A Price To Paris
Handful of Snowdrops Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Minutes From Downtown Minutes From Downtown Minutes From Downtown '82
Rave Revues Everyone’s a Critic Voices
Glamorcult A Dream Girl To Me Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude
Clooz Leave Me Alone Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Bumpers I Watch You Go Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)
Benjamin Russell Where Do We Belong? Madman
The Scene (2) Meet the Man Only in Paradise
Instructions The Factory ST
The Play Atlantic City Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City
Fictions Don't Look Down ST
Contradance Trouble in the Darkness Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)
Direktive 17 Run With Me ST (EP)

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

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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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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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Maurice & the Cliches

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Veronika

Soft Core

Maurice & the Cliches Soft Core (3)

Maurice & the Cliches Soft Core (2)

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Maurice & the Cliches

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Maurice & The Cliches - Cest la vie BACK

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

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Minutes From Downtown – Minutes From Downtown (4)

Minutes From Downtown – Minutes From Downtown (3)

Minutes From Downtown – Minutes From Downtown (1)

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I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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