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
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
True Confessions	Passion	ST	02:44
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Corsage	Big Night Out (Doll & Penny's Trance Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	07:45
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Lawn	Peace in the Valley	Peace in the Valley	03:37
Térapi	Espèce de stress	Primale	02:33
Spoons	Game Above Your Head	Vertigo Tango	03:51
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Compilation	Tulpä - Apologize to Your Mother	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:06
Reasons	The Fall	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:59
100 Flowers	Darkness	21st Guessing	05:39
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Rave Revues	Have You	Voices	04:01
Micks	I Want to be With You	ST (EP)	03:40
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Kaméléon	Microcosme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:45
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
The Voxx	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
Spoons	Breaking In	Static In Transmission	04:34
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Blue Oil	Celebration	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:41
Reid My Lyps	Susie Don't Run	Susie Don't Run b/w Susie Don't Run	03:57
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Boys Brigade	Into the Flow	ST	05:09
John Lutz T.	Kiss And Tell	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	02:10
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
The Presence	Blown Away	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	02:15
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
Cannon Heath Down	Fortunate	Heart-Throb Companion	01:22
Boys Brigade	Black + White	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:46
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Start	In Passion	Hey You	03:24
Moev	Madhatter	Zimmerkampf	04:50
Diodes	Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Bruce PM	Even More Joyful Noise	Makeshift	03:50
100 Flowers	Pam	21st Guessing	03:33
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Drastic Measures	See My House	ST	02:46
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Compilation	Diatribe - Air Radio	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	03:34
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
The Idles	Again and Again	The Idles Demo	02:54
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Spoons	Beautiful Trap	New Day New World	04:45
Drama	God Is a Machine	Loneliness	02:27
Ross Angeles	Salute	Salute	01:53
Rob Bryanton	We Are All Chemicals	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:28
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
Psyche	Illusion	The Influence	04:26
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
Johnny Faith	Party time	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	01:42
Tribal Earth	Got to Move	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	04:09
Lou Champagne System	Machine Muzik	No Visible Means	04:20
Johnny Zhivago	It Must be Love	Microalbum	03:43
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Fictions	Dimestore Romance	ST	03:44
Red Herring	Love Machine	Taste Tests	03:32
Blue Peter	Same Old Place	Test Patterns For Living	03:12
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Tim Ray	Horses Mouth (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:29
Rex Chainbelt	Disco	Foreign Movie	00:46
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Villains	Wendy's Melody	Go Crazy	03:47
Spoons	Life On Demand	New Day New World	04:14
Scenics	Open Up Your Door	Underneath the Door	02:09
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	Folk of the 80's (EP)	04:12
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Eight Seconds	Zoe	Almacantar	04:54
Villains	Lovers	Go Crazy	03:03
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
Rob Bryanton	Havin' Some Fun Tonight	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:07
Strange Advance	Reprise "Worlds Away"	Worlds Away	01:35
Spoons	Arias & Symphonies	Arias & Symphonies	04:47
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Voice	Wake Up Dreaming	Anno Di Voce	04:05
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
The Idles	Uptown/Downtown	The Idles Demo	03:23
Norda	West Over Seas	West Over Seas	05:54
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Moral Lepers	Suicide	Turn to Stone	02:06
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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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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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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