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
Handful of Snowdrops	Trust	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	04:24
Popular Front	Flipside	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:57
Government	Greetings from the Gutter (Reprise)	Electric Eye	00:50
James Harcourt	Like the Way It Feels	Emotional Blackmail	02:34
Neon	Til Midnight	ST (EP)	03:23
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Spoons	Rodeo	Bridges Over Borders	04:12
Spoons	Unpremeditated Love	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:49
Iko	Gonado Tropic Synthesis	83	07:18
Spoons	Bed of Nails	Vertigo Tango	04:38
Glamorcult	Would it be Over	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:29
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
John Young Paul	Is That Why?	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:07
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
Spoons	Be Alone Tonight	Bridges Over Borders	05:11
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Boys Brigade	Portrait	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:45
Austra	Spellwork	Feel it Break	05:09
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Inner Sanction	I Cherish	Dancematic-Automatic	03:10
Inner Sanction	Mystery & Harmony	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:41
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Cold War Nightlife	04:40
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Bruce PM	Radios and Cameras	Makeshift	03:58
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Instructions	The Factory	ST	03:41
Rave Revues	Rules Of Play	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:23
Secret Act	Helpless	My Neighbourhood	04:14
Handful of Snowdrops	Mort en direct (1989)	Mort en direct	03:38
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Iko	Approach on Tokyo	83	05:15
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Figures At Dawn	Sons of the Century	ST	04:36
Eight Seconds	Wings	Almacantar	04:46
Voice	Wake Up Dreaming	Anno Di Voce	04:05
Figures At Dawn	Letters from London	ST	04:14
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Moral Lepers	Beryl Bean	Turn to Stone	02:41
Spoons	Like a Memory	Bridges Over Borders	03:47
Modernes Pickles	Strawberry Slush	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:21
Family Plot	Just One Slip	Convictions	04:04
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Blue Oil	I Blow You a Kiss	ST	02:36
Compilation	Voodoo - Stormy Eyes	Toronto Calling	04:34
A Day in Paris	déjà vu	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:59
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Martha And The Muffins	Hide and Seek	Metro Music	03:58
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
I Braineater	1980 More	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:57
Spoons	You Light Up	Static In Transmission	04:23
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
Erect	The Tube	Consequence of Life	04:33
Within Gothic Towers	In My Hour Of Despair	Within Gothic Towers	04:37
Blue Oil	Sardine City	Blue Oil (1981-83)	01:49
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	So Far	04:14
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
The Scene (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
Bruce PM	Well, Yes	Makeshift	04:45
Darkroom	In Dim light	San Paku	03:34
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
Psyche	Taking Chances	Unveiling The Secret	04:38
Klō	Try	Demo 1981	04:22
Einstein	A Brighter Tomorrow	Sex and Science	03:09
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Glen Meadmore	Hen Party	Chicken & Biscuits	05:22
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Hunger Project	Assembly	Demo 1982	04:48
Spoons	Repeatable	New Day New World	03:54
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Popular Front (1)	Forty Days	This is the Rubicon	04:40
Spoons	Camera Shy	Talkback	04:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Where Do You Call Home?	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:46
Moev	Kim Says	Dusk and Desire	03:41
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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