On Barbaric: “It can be a few misplaced love or it may also be about all of a sudden and unexpectedly getting rid of melancholy. And even for those who understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. As a result of it additionally means readability. And earlier than you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, nicely, it really occurred that means. The songs are already quite accurate inventories of my life, I’m fairly open here on this album. Solely typically the mysterious peeps across the corner.

On St. Charles Sq.: "I sing concerning the disagreeable experience of just lately discovering myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, but I’m quite clear in the track. I’m not going to be the first or the final to screw something up and should cope with consequences.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023