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	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
Entrance System	Swoon	Imperfect Image	04:05
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Drama	Jungle Chant	Loneliness	03:28
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Midway b/w Thin Lines	04:07
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
The Front	The Same Girl	Underworld	04:14
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Someone Should Have Told Me (Behind Black Gloves)	Space and Time	04:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Rave Revues	Have You	Voices	04:01
Kings	Anti Hero man	Are Here	03:26
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Glamorcult	On The Line	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:04
Diodes	Hot Sands	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:32
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Scissors	Do You Like it?	ST	02:20
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
4th Floor	Black and White	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:37
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
Breeding Ground	Business	Obscurity And Flair	04:02
Diodes	City of the Dead	Action-Reaction	04:04
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Figures At Dawn	Sons of the Century	ST	04:36
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
e	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	03:37
Scenics	Tokyo	New Part In Town	04:07
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Hot Tip	Never Look Back	Stop All Motion	03:25
A Neon Rome	The Prayer	New Heroin	06:01
Volts	Never Enough	Plugged In	03:03
Philip Rambow	Snakes And Ladders	Jungle Law	03:52
Absolute 9	She Believes	ST	02:52
Psyche	Psychic Vampire	Insomnia Theatre	02:55
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Demars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Tele-Tetes	03:48
Austra	The Noise	Feel it Break	03:31
Entrance System	Ahohoo	Imperfect Image	03:45
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Decade of Dreams	The Bridge	Wild Colloquial	03:31
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Melinite	Trouble in Section 17	Push The Button And Run!	01:46
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
John Young Paul	Angels With Dirty Faces	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:33
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
Moev	Took Out the Lace	Dusk and Desire	03:42
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
Moral Support	Closer to You	Insanity	03:19
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Gaslit Squares	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:56
Rational Youth	Latin Lovers	ST (mini album)	03:51
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Secret Act	Our Little Secret	My Neighbourhood	04:36
Pukka Orchestra	The Deserter	ST	00:50
Glamorcult	Cry	Shadows From The Past	03:35
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
NEO A4	Time for Me Now	ST	04:42
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Magic Dragon	Egyptian Radio	Emotional Landscape	04:12
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Glamorcult	Dream Girl (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:43
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
Class Info	Out of Line	Inside	04:04
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:34
Reasons	Take Me Back	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:01
True Confessions	Smokey's Gonna Twist	ST	02:25
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	Heredity	05:17
Pukka Orchestra	Rubber Girl	ST	04:34
Demars	Le zaratt express	Les Tele-Tetes	04:11
Living End (1)	Steal a Smile	ST	03:20
Kaméléon	Anachronisme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:24

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Entrance System - Imperfect Image

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Shock Culture - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Tame & Talking - ST

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Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide E.P.

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Vital Sines - Collage

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Tim Ray - ST

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Volts - Plugged In

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This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination

Tenants - ST

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Compilation - The Circuit

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Moral Support - Insanity

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Scenics - Underneath the Door

Nex'd - Surreal (EP)

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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Neon - ST (EP)

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The Plugs - Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today

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Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

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A Day in Paris - Prey

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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A Day in Paris - Rhymes On Vinyl

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David Raven & the Escorts - David Raven And The Escorts

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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