Bagpuss rag doll called Madeleine. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Postgate had once met), while the mice carved on the side of the "mouse organ" (a small mechanical pipe organ that played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices. Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the voices of Madeleine and Gabriel respectively, and put together and performed all the folk songs. All the other voices (including the narrator and one out-of-tune mouse) were provided by Postgate, who also wrote the stories. The toys discussed
A Thing Called Divine Fits than what that the album showed. Mary Chang of "DIY" called the album's cohesiveness "astonishing" considering that the band had only formed some months prior to its release. Other critics spoke positively of Daniel and Boeckner, noting that their songwriting fit together naturally. "Rolling Stone"'s Jon Dolan described their partnership as a "genuine synthesis", while Harley Brown of "Consequence of Sound" wrote that "it might be the most fortuitous musical pairing in recent history." "A Thing Called Divine Fits" was listed at number twenty-three on "Rolling Stone"s list of the top 50 albums of 2012, with the publication praising Divine