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KGLW Vinyls

written September 30th, 2025

Going to the discount bookstore to sell off some unwanted books and CDs on the weekend, I was presented with a monumental score I never could've expected: KGLW vinyls. I didn't even notice them myself at first; it was my dad who pointed me to a vinyl of chiptune renditions of Polygondwanaland's tracklist. I didn't even know was a thing that exists!

Sadly, I had to pass on that prospect, because there was something far more appealing within my grasp. Albeit a mismatched set--evidently from different pressing jobs based on the differing quality of their covers--of the inseperable pair: K.G. and L.W.

Not only have I heard all of the tracks on each album (as opposed to the total ONE track each I had heard from Papier Mache Dream Balloon and Gumboot Soup, which were also there), but I was actually introduced to maybe over half of L.W.'s tracklist originally by my sibling, who made the very good point that L.W. (and K.G.) is thusly an album the both of us would enjoy listening to.

Unfortunately, being two halves of one whole, I couldn't possibly bring myself to just get L.W. alone, so of course I got both of them:

Photo of the covers for the vinyls of K.G. and L.W. lined up next to one another to show
that the cover art pieces are meant to comprise a larger piece

I'm listening to them with headphones on as I write this! The audio quality on them is a bit flat and middy, which might be the reason they wound up where I found them.

Though I'm sure that most people reading this who have vinyls of their own will be able to agree that having music that you love in a physical form you can hold in your hands is its own joy regardless of audio quality. You didn't come here to read a description of someone's two completely normal vinyls anyhow.

written October 29th, 2025

After listening to these two on the speakers built into my record player, I've come to the conclusion I really can't tell the difference without wearing headphones like I did the first time around. Probably an indication that my player's speakers just aren't very good, but it's a dinky little thing with fairly small speakers, so I can't say that it's not like I didn't know that already.