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
Spoons	Nova Heart	Nova Heart b/w Symmetry	06:41
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
I Braineater	Canada	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:23
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:28
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:50
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Compilation	Sigi Jonsson - Trying To Find Her	Toronto Calling	02:25
Hot Tip	Bridge to Manhattan	Stop All Motion	03:05
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
The Front	Hide And Seek	Gina's at a Party	03:17
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Darkroom	Proven Guilty	San Paku	03:32
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Government	Portrait	How Many Fingers?	02:36
Vital Sines	Sorry	Big Dark Dreams	04:32
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Mannequin Demo	04:46
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
Zipper	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll)	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:59
Numbers	Can't Take it	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:42
NEO A4	Time for Me Now	ST	04:42
Villains	You Are (All These Things to Me)	Go Crazy	04:38
Klō	You're Chic	Demo 1981	05:34
Klō	Fun	Fun b/w Weirdo	04:53
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Extras	The Watcher	The Watcher (EP)	05:18
DeMars	Véhiculation humaine	Les Télé-Têtes	04:54
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Ear Candy	The Hunter	Self Defence	05:06
Images In Vogue	Holiday	In The House	05:14
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
Kultur	Altar	Kultur	03:59
Modernes Pickles	Chocolate Lady	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:21
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
The Plugs	Sending An S.O.S.	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:21
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
Scissors	Nadine	ST	02:03
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
Modernes Pickles	Secret Life of Achmed	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:27
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Kaméléon	Anachronisme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:24
Glamorcult	She Touched My Soul	Early Glamour	04:50
Eight Seconds	Call and a Cry	Almacantar	04:11
Breeding Ground	Happy Now I Know	Tales of Adventure (EP)	03:45
Reactors	Alien Radio	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:22
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Handful of Snowdrops	Charlatan (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:25
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
Psyche	Unveiling the Secret	Unveiling The Secret	07:03
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Moral Lepers	Dead of Night	Turn to Stone	03:59
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (1984)	Mort en direct	05:16
Maja Bannerman	Knock On My Door	Songs by Maja Bannerman	01:56
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
The Play	Whatever it Takes	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:25
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Scenics	Mony Mony	Underneath the Door	02:52
Images In Vogue	In the House (Extended Dance Remix)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	08:25
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:32
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Modern Minds	Happy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:11
David Raven & the Escorts	Keep On Burning	David Raven And The Escorts	03:49
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News IV	I Fear What I Might Hear	07:58
FM109	Mirror Man	ST	03:17
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:14
Breeding Ground	Reunion	Reunion // Slaughter	04:54
Glamorcult	My Lady	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:02
Moral Support	Rising	Insanity	03:04
Rave Revues	Voices	Voices	04:00
Modernes Pickles	Sweet Jenny	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:07
Boys Brigade	Touch Glass	Mannequin Demo	03:28
Blue Oil	Superficiel (ami d'esprit superficiel)	ST	03:41
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Absolute 9	Fence	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:00
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:51
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Volts	These Things Remain	Plugged In	03:57
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	04:44
Inner Sanction	Mystery & Harmony	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:41
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
DeMars	Le rêveur egaré	Les Télé-Têtes	04:06

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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