No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal (studio album)
by The Apartments
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No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal is ranked as the best album by The Apartments.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/02/2025 12:11 |  sssvnnn | 8,161 | 67/100 |
| ! | 03/11/2024 08:52 |  Brad1770 | 1,617 | 66/100 |
| ! | 10/21/2022 02:09 | Moondance | 19,848 | 72/100 |
| ! | 08/15/2022 17:06 |  craola | 4,395 | 77/100 |
| ! | 01/01/2021 21:08 |  dihansse | 6,221 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 10% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.
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Brad1770 03/11/2024 09:01 | #302416
Ex (pre Lindy) Go-Between Peter Milton emerges from a looooong hiatus to deliver a devastatingly sad break up album generally regarded as a modern Australian masterpiece
“Oh the trees there are so tall now
They were planted when your first child was born
The swings in the yard are still there now
But the child and the flowers are gone”
From ‘The House That We Once Lived In’
Further proof that Australian bands are well worth a listen. Distinctive, heartbreaking, profoundly beautiful.
craola 08/15/2022 17:05 | #288514
"I've been stuck in the same quicksand since 1999... stuck in the same quicksand. The snow was falling on Broadway, and I promised you that one day I'd take you away to New York. Whatever happened to the promise? Whatever happened to the time? It ran out, but I thought I'd see you at 21."
One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking albums I've heard.
dihansse 03/04/2021 20:36 | #266957
One of those bands I didn't really know before so I'm sorry I didn't listen to it before because this is a gem of an album. This is in fact one the singer wrote after the death of his son and the grief is palpable in all tracks (the lyrics but also the fact that his voice seems bound to break any minute) but in some way it also sounds very hopeful. And of course this makes me want to discover their earlier albums.
alexgagne 02/16/2016 16:16 | #159941
Australian Destroyer (Dan Bejar with a band and a female back vocal) here. Again, nothing new and original here...
Favorite track: No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal
Less favorite track: Twenty One
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