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

On St. Charles Sq.: "I sing concerning the unpleasant expertise of just 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 final to screw something up and should cope with penalties.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023