On Barbaric: “It can be a few misplaced love or it can be about all of the sudden and unexpectedly eliminating melancholy. And even in the event you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. Because it additionally means readability. And earlier than you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, nicely, it actually happened that method. The songs are already quite correct inventories of my life, I’m fairly open right here on this album. Only typically the mysterious peeps around the nook.

On St. Charles Sq.: "I sing concerning the unpleasant expertise of lately finding myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, however I’m fairly clear in the track. I’m not going to be the primary or the last to screw something up and need to cope with consequences.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023