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	No Promises	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:39
NEO A4	Look to Your Heart	The Warmer Side of You	03:47
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Lou Champagne System	Propaganda Frustration	No Visible Means	06:49
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Add Up	03:33
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Maurice & The Clichés	Knowhere Man	ST	03:23
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Psyche	Haunted	The Influence	04:10
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Minutes From Downtown	Heaven Street	ST	04:35
This Fear	Dreaming of a Nation	Darkness Shapes Imagination	04:08
Glamorcult	Images of Monlight	Early Glamour	04:19
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
The Front	The Same Girl	Underworld	04:14
Villains	Boogie Man	Go Crazy	04:24
James Harcourt	Hook or By Crrok	Emotional Blackmail	03:33
Cardboard Brains	And So I Hide	Live At The Edge	03:46
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
The Front	The Truth Hurts	Gina's at a Party	03:13
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
Deserters	Boys In Berlin	ST	03:42
Compilation	Zro4 - Blood	No Pedestrians	03:29
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Spoons	Love Drum	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:16
Kinetic Ideals	Life in Shadow	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	02:57
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Entrance System	Ahohoo	Imperfect Image	03:45
Spoons	Radio Heaven	Bridges Over Borders	03:57
Boys Brigade	The Cut Up (Breaking Glass)	ST	04:24
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Lawn	Catwalk Slip	Peace in the Valley	03:24
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Compilation	Tammie Chicorli - A Special Day	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:29
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Robert Armes	Radio Active	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	02:31
Modernes Pickles	People Get Killed and Get Up and Kill	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:25
Psyche	Nocturnal Passenger	Mystery Hotel	06:07
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Informer	Hold It	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:12
Austra	The Choke	Feel it Break	04:12
Tenants	I Love Romance	ST	03:55
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Oui	Information	Oui	04:41
The Diodes	Action Re-action	Action-Reaction	03:18
Martha And The Muffins	Suburban Dream	Trance and Dance	03:27
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
Tim Ray	Mondo Cane (July, 1984)	History Lessons 1978-1984	04:44
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Mannequin Demo	03:32
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Spoons	A Girl in Two Pieces	Arias & Symphonies	04:27
Handful of Snowdrops	When Comes Daylight	Land of the Damned	05:01
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Spoons	Dropped Dishes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:58
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Zipper	Another Boyfriend	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:52
e	Power Blackout	The Levitation Syndrome	02:39
The Scene (2)	Rise	Only in Paradise	05:12
Maurice & The Clichés	Soft Core	C'est la vie	04:26
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
100 Flowers	The Best Status Symbol	21st Guessing	02:54
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Quasi Hands	Parallel Lines	ST	03:19
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Spoons	Like a Memory	Bridges Over Borders	03:47
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	The Safety Dance	04:47
Ear Candy	The Hunter	Self Defence	05:06
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Start	Just Another Girl	Hey You	04:57
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle (1987)	Mort en direct	06:32
39 Steps	Jump on the Death Train	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:02
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Modernes Pickles	Bonjour de Bob	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:01
Micks	Money Talks	ST (EP)	02:24
Numbers	Bits & Pieces	Add Up	02:45
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
The Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Tribal Earth	Interaction - Reaction	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	05:49
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:14
Men Without Hats	Security (Everybody Feels Better With)	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:57
Maurice & The Clichés	It's All Talk	C'est la vie	03:18

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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