Coconut Night

Three naked people wake up in a forest surrounded by creatures that aren’t quite human. This is the We Are Wolves video for Coconut Night, and it’s genuinely unsettling in a deadpan way—not trying to scare you, just strange. The costumes are clearly handmade and cheap, but that’s exactly what makes them work. Wrong without being slick about it.

The video has a simple, cyclical logic. The three wander through the woods. The creatures circle them. Then it becomes clear this is a ritual, and it escalates toward sacrifice. Triangular holes open in their chests—like that section in the Lufia games where everything turns ceremonial and dark. And then it resets. The same loop again.

I’m not sure what any of it means, which might be the whole point. We Are Wolves is a Canadian indie rock band, and I don’t know their catalog well enough to know if this weirdness is their standard thing or a one-off detour. But whatever it is, the video stays with you. It doesn’t feel like it’s trying to be unsettling, which somehow makes it more unsettling. That kind of unadorned strangeness doesn’t leave easily.