VHS Lanterns from Playground Rewind by Marimbits

This track unfolds like a quiet retrospective film, its storyline tracing the afterglow of communal gathering once a familiar place is gone. Marimba notes, fragile with tremolo, drift through hazy synth pads, casting light on fading memories. There’s a palpable tension, not aggressive, but a lingering echo in the irregular delay slurs that let motifs waver like tired thoughts. The piece forms a palindrome, a subtle loop, allowing past rally chants to surface as ghost-tones—a nuanced undercurrent suggesting battles fought and spaces lost. Granular VHS hum and the gentle thrum of playground chimes lay beneath, grounding the bittersweet acceptance in a sonic landscape of quiet erosion, revealing the subtexts of memory and disappearance.

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