New Wave Post Punk Wave

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
Entrance System Imperfect Image Imperfect Image
Bündock Stand Still Société Anonyme
Psyche The Outsider Mystery Hotel
Spoons A Girl in Two Pieces Arias & Symphonies
Reactors If I Only Had a Brain If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio
Tenants You Don't Know What I've Been Thru ST
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Part in Peace Midnite News
Ohm & the Secret Sources Someone Should Have Told Me (Behind Black Gloves) Space and Time
Glamorcult Images of Monlight Early Glamour
Benjamin Russell Where Do We Belong? Madman
Rational Youth Ring the Bells Cold War Nightlife
Ceramic Hello Staticarnival The Absence of a Canary
Corsage Troubles ST
Breeding Ground Slaughter Reunion // Slaughter
Scenics Jonathan Richman New Part In Town
Martha And The Muffins Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow) Danseparc
Barking Boys Open City The Yes Girls
Carbon Unit The Martian Hop The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)
Figures At Dawn Bridges Burning ST
FM109 S.O.S. ST
Land of Giants Fire With Fire Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks
Hot Tip Hard to be Me Stop All Motion
Handful of Snowdrops Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Mettle Evening Ocean ST
Big Dog Cantina 99 Change Hands
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Spoons Trade Winds Arias & Symphonies
Vis-A-Vis I am the Night Heart and Soul
Kaméléon Omnibus Cactus ST
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Diodes Roses and Thorns Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981
Null Set Judgement Days New Job (EP)
Government Get You Sleepin' 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.
True Confessions Modern Girl ST
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Talking About Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Blue Peter Time and Money Test Patterns For Living
Glamorcult As I Breathe on The TTC Shadows From The Past
The Scene (2) Gardens of Babylon Only in Paradise
The Front Hide And Seek Gina's at a Party
Martha And The Muffins What People Do for Fun Danseparc
Martha And The Muffins Boys in the Bushes Danseparc
Salty Seamen One Chance Left In The Groove At Last
Degrees of Freedom Risk China
Benjamin Russell Dreaming Girl Madman
Contradance Trouble in the Darkness Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)
Bündock Tied for Time Société Anonyme
Living End (1) Dislocation ST
Glen Meadmore Do Me Baby Chicken & Biscuits
Men Without Hats Antarctica Folk of the 80's (EP)
Eight Seconds Kiss You (When It's Dangerous) Almacantar
Scissors All This And More ST
Térapi Breadus Fongus Primale
Land of Giants Seven Men Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks
Glamorcult Carry the Water Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
The Front Underworld Underworld
Iko Communication Off 83
Glamorcult In Time (Only to be Free) Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)
Streetcar Named Desire Yesteryear Life Begins
Lawn As Yet Peace in the Valley
Strange Advance Kiss in the Dark Worlds Away
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Feelings Feel Ohama aka The White Album
John Young Paul The Girl Spells Grief The Life of Ermie Scub
James Harcourt Queen Bee Emotional Blackmail
Hot Tip My Shoes Stop All Motion
True Confessions Yes it's True ST
Joe Naylor I'm Canadian Beer I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights
Braineater I Funtime Artist, Poet, Thief
Modernettes Femme Fatale View From The Bottom (EP)
Corsage Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump) Big Night Out (EP)
Braineater I Alone I Here, Where You
NEO A4 Sex (For Love) The Warmer Side of You
Bicycle Thieves Picking Up Pens ST
Extras I Never Told You, I Told You So The Watcher (EP)
Cannon Heath Down ma-de-moi-selle Heart-Throb Companion
Martha And The Muffins Paint By Number Heart Metro Music
The Front The Hard Line Gina's at a Party
Rave Revues Long Time Coming Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)
Ross Angeles She Knows Salute
Family Plot My Mad Friend Convictions
Hygiene Club Girls at the Bank Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary
Faded Films East of the Asylum Faded Years
Spoons My Favourite Page Talkback
Age of Mirrors Glass and Crystal Lives Screenplay
Villains Laylow Go Crazy
Living End (1) Anaesthesia Grin ST
Salty Seamen Too Late to Worry Now In The Groove At Last
Golden Calgarians My Big Truck Savage Love
Utopiate You've Been Warned You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance
Fictions Shuffle ST
Rex Chainbelt Cherry Beach Foreign Movie
Scott Matthews Viewing Nonevents Boats in Rivers
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) T.V. Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.
UJ3RK5 Eisenhower and the Hippies Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Don't Be Afraid Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Mushin No Shin Midnite News
Drastic Measures I Need You Now ST
The Front Twice Shy Underworld
Zipper Slowtown Rats Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats
Spoons One in Ten Words Arias & Symphonies

Insanity

Moral Support

Underneath the Door

Insanity Side 1

Moral Support - Insanity INSERT SIDE 02

Moral Support - Insanity INSERT SIDE 01

Moral Support - Insanity BACK

Nex'd - ST BACK

Surreal (EP)

Normal Life

Awake The Echoes - Normal Life LABEL 02

Awake The Echoes - Normal Life LABEL 01

Awake The Echoes - Normal Life BACK

ST (EP)

ST

Our Sir Francis to the Sea

Our Sir Francis to the Sea LABEL 02

Our Sir Francis to the Sea LABEL 01

Our Sir Francis to the Sea INSERT SIDE 02

Our Sir Francis to the Sea INSERT SIDE 01

Our Sir Francis to the Sea BACK

Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

Electric Mocean

45-Electric Mocean - Motion bw Television Eyes VINYL 02

45-Electric Mocean - Motion bw Television Eyes VINYL 01

45-Electric Mocean - Motion bw Television Eyes BACK

Wondering b/w Honesty

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

ST (EP)

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

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