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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Front, The	The Truth Hurts	Gina's at a Party	03:13
Cannon Heath Down	Je Suis Certain	Heart-Throb Companion	02:03
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Front, The	Someday	Gina's at a Party	03:34
Russell, Benjamin	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Madman	02:30
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Vital Sines	Ice Statue	Collage	04:41
Psyche	Black Panther	Unveiling The Secret	03:52
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Insex	One	One (EP)	04:47
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
Billy Butt & The Brats	No I Can't Say No	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	02:47
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
45's	She's In Love	On the Beach	03:27
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Space and Time	05:25
Russell, Benjamin	Action and Reaction	Madman	02:14
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Presence, The	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
Fictions	I Let Go	ST	02:26
Carbon Unit	The Marsh	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	02:45
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Pre-release	03:30
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Glamorcult	Afterglow	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:44
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Martha And The Muffins	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
Matheson, Andrew	My Girls (Pin-Up Parade)	Monterey Shoes	03:52
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Perfect World	Twist and Shove	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	03:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	Midnite News	03:44
K	Sliding In	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	03:11
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Tenants	I Love Romance	ST	03:55
Russell, Benjamin	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Modernettes	Static	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:54
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Palace at 4 a.m.	Untamed World	Untamed World	03:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Let Them Eat Static	Midnite News	04:37
Annabelle's Room	Hopscotch	ST	04:41
Scissors	Summer Girls	ST	02:18
A Kid	Come	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:35
Térapi	Breadus Fongus	Primale	02:51
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Blinn, Roland	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Absolute 9	Stop Thinking	ST	03:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	Midnite News	03:30
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Spoons	No Electrons	Arias & Symphonies	05:12
Bumpers	Ian	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	03:26
Compilation	Diatribe - Air Radio	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	03:34
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
Tenants	Reach Out	Visions of Our Future	03:29
Meadmore, Glen	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Bobby and Synthia	Chant #2	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:00
Chipman, Timothy	China Doll	Ghost Parade	02:31
Psyche	The Brain Collapses (Original Concept)	Insomnia Theatre	04:07
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:28
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Breeding Ground	Turn to Dust	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:20
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Young, John Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Zhivago, Johnny	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Russell, Benjamin	Baby, This Is Love	Madman	02:04
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Russell, Benjamin	Boffo	Madman	02:12
Tribal Earth	Got to Move	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	04:09
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Spoons	Smiling in Winter	Arias & Symphonies	04:05
Edge, The	Go Away	Release the Circle	03:11

New Wave Post Punk Wave

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

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NEO A4 - ST

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Kinetic Ideals - Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

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Billy Butt & The Brats - Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No

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End, The - Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)

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Numbers - Add Up

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Golden Calgarians - New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Strange Advance - Worlds Away

Tulpa - Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)

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Golden Calgarians - Savage Love

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Rational Youth - Cold War Nightlife

Rikki & The Rokkits - New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)

Micks - ST (EP)

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Chown, Avril - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

Broken Tables - ST

Bobby and Synthia - thirty-six hours (EP)

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Cottage Industry - The Winter's Tale

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Zhivago, Johnny - Microalbum

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Lawn - Peace in the Valley

45's - On the Beach

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Numbers - Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it

Nasty Habits - Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)

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