It's Just a Burning Memory is a track by The Caretaker, the hauntology project of Leyland Kirby, released in 2016 as part of the first stage of Everywhere at the End of Time, an album series exploring memory loss through degraded ballroom samples. Years later, the track became closely linked online with the Backrooms, the endless yellow rooms from a 2019 internet creepypasta, and with liminal space videos on YouTube and TikTok. Its faded, looping sound now instantly signals an empty, uncanny place to viewers.
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The warped, looping ballroom melody from The Caretaker's It's Just a Burning Memory, used as eerie backrooms and liminal space ambience in horror videos.
This 16-second clip captures the faded, looping ballroom melody at the heart of The Caretaker's It's Just a Burning Memory, a hazy piano tune that sounds as if it is drifting through an empty, decaying hotel. The notes waver and decay, wrapped in vinyl crackle and a distant, muffled warmth that makes the familiar feel strangely distant. Played over backrooms footage, it turns an empty yellow corridor into something unsettling and nostalgic at once, filling the silence with a sense of being lost in a place that should feel safe but does not.
