That Night in Toronto

That Night in Toronto

Wolf Parade's weirdest video

Will you actually believe in everything?

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Michael Barclay
Mar 09, 2025
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The mid-2000s: anything could happen. Like a group of British Columbian punks living in Montreal, totally broke despite being one of the buzziest new rock bands of the year, filming a video in Hungary on 35-mm film, that involves 17th-century duels and a cast of real-life bizarre characters — a video in which the band’s two singers don’t even appear, an…

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