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
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Channel 5	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:19
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Glamorcult	Past Glory	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
The Diodes	That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979)	Rarities	04:27
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
Glen Meadmore	Just a Girl	Chicken & Biscuits	05:57
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Extras	Jealous Girl	Bit Parts	03:31
Benjamin Russell	Want a World	Madman	02:13
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Age of Reason(able Pleasure)	White Guilt	04:42
Kaméléon	Insomnuit (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:35
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
NEO A4	In My Life	The Warmer Side of You	03:19
Breeding Ground	Reunion	Reunion // Slaughter	04:54
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
ACTORS	XYX	Reanimated	03:44
Erect	We Are Police	Consequence of Life	02:14
NEO A4	Only a Fool	ST	03:52
Modernes Pickles	I'm in Love with the Super Friends	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:42
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
The Front	The Moon Is a Stranger	Underworld	03:12
Erect	Don't Put Me Down	Consequence of Life	02:44
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Doppler Bros.	Big Time Tragedy	Totally Impractical	03:36
Billy Butt & The Brats	No I Can't Say No	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	02:47
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Moev	Czar	Dusk and Desire	04:19
Philip Rambow	Jungle Law	Jungle Law	03:15
Images In Vogue	So Careful (Extended Mix)	So Careful (Extended Mix)	07:17
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Drama	Jungle Chant	Loneliness	03:28
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Spoons	In the Hands of Money	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:43
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	ST (EP)	01:56
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
45's	Say You'll Be Mine	On the Beach	03:15
Low Fun	The New Dictator	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	05:01
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Pointed Sticks	The Real Thing	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:31
NEO A4	Home	The Warmer Side of You	02:53
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
The Diodes	Survivors	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:56
Glamorcult	Saying Goodbye	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:40
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Salty Seamen	Goddess of the Hunt	In The Groove At Last	02:30
Dandelions	Funky Monday	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	02:51
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:27
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
Modernes Pickles	I've Won a Million	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:02
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
A Day in Paris	wItHoUt yOu	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:19
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
Modernes Pickles	Sweet Jenny	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:07
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Friendly Fire	I Saw Her Smile	Junior Senility EP	02:31
True Confessions	4th Base	ST	02:46
Melinite	Waiting 4-U	Push The Button And Run!	01:48
Images In Vogue	Flashing Black	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Living End (1)	All Mine	ST	03:08
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Fictions	Praying for the World	ST	03:06
39 Steps	Teachers	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:22
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:50
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Boys Brigade	Voices	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:27
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:06
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	Mannequin Demo	04:13
Popular Front (1)	Living On the Line	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	03:48
NEO A4	Is She is She	ST	04:39
ACTORS	Death from Above	Acts of Worship	03:32
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Compilation	Arrows - Come On Up	Toronto Calling	02:57
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Moral Support	Closer to You	Insanity	03:19
Modernes Pickles	Chocolate Lady	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:21
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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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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