Trivia / maudlin of the Well

• Covers Always Lie: Bath and Leaving Your Body Map had their covers switched for some reason, with Bath having a drawing of a series of signposts on a hillside, and Leaving Your Body Map showing a drawing of a bathtub.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: Toby considers My Fruit PsychoBells to be their best album.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For a long time, it was very difficult to find physical copies of the band's work. Blood Music's reissues reduced the problem somewhat for awhile, but by now, copies are pretty high-priced again. Worse are the below-mentioned box sets (especially the CD Box set) that were released in very limited quantities (150 at best) and are rare to come across. On the plus side, Bath and Leaving Your Body Map are available to buy on Kayo Dot's Bandcamp fairly cheaply.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: Two of them. First, a vinyl box set of Bath and Leaving Your Body Map was co-released by Blood Music and the now-defunct Antithetic Records (which also included a bonus 7" of the rare track "Secret Song"). Secondly, Blood Music released a CD box set of all four of the band's albums.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: While My Fruit PsychoBells is generally fairly well liked, it's not usually considered the band's best work. However, Toby Driver considers it to have some of the band's best work on it.
• Missing Episode: The demos are not publicly available, apart from a handful of tracks. For some odd reason on Kayo Dot's bandcamp, My Fruit PsychoBells wasn't on there until 2019, ironically, considering Toby considers it their best work.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Some of the lyrics in "Birth Pains of Astral Projection", particularly those concerning someone named Amelia, were apparently inspired by a time when the band broke into an old, supposedly haunted house and spent a while communicating via Ouija board with a spirit calling itself Amelia (as it turns out, the house in question actually had been owned by somebody by that name in the 1800's, though Toby Driver himself has some doubts about the story's authenticity).
• Reclusive Artist: Some of the band members have all but dropped off the face of the earth since it broke up. In particular, Jason Byron and Maria Stella-Fountoulakis seem to have retired from music, with Byron returning to write lyrics for the Kayo Dot albums Hubardo and Blasphemy and perform a single guest spot on "The Black Stone".

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