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

On St. Charles Square: "I sing concerning the disagreeable experience of lately finding myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, however I’m quite clear within the track. I’m not going to be the first or the last to screw one thing up and should cope with consequences.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023