Bell Rewind from Playground Rewind by Marimbits

The afternoon’s lingering echo settles, a school bell’s final ring pulling backward through a haze of magnetic tape. This instrumental piece, firmly rooted in our marimba-synthwave sound, unfurls with a gentle 6/8 sway, a tempo that lets fragile chords hang without urgency. Electrified marimba arpeggios unfurl, laced with an airy polysynth and the grounding thrum of reclaimed sub-bar chimes. That initial thrill from the album’s start revisits, yet now it’s steeped in a weary VHS wobble, each note bending as if a home movie aged too long. Isla’s commitment to raw, four-track takes means that unique flutter isn't merely preserved, but woven in as a character, making the temporal loops and tender closure of the 'Bell Spill' motif—reworked at half speed—a quiet commentary on how memory wears down. It's a bittersweet exhale, the kind of quiet relief that settles like evening hum behind closed eyelids, proving the afternoon endures forever, deeply etched in the magnetic tape’s very character.

We're Marimbits. We take old marimbas and rusty VCRs, then make wobbly tunes that hit like your favorite childhood home video on loop.