On Barbaric: “It can be a few lost 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 also means clarity. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, nicely, it really occurred that method. The songs are already quite accurate inventories of my life, I’m pretty open here on this album. Solely typically the mysterious peeps across the corner.

On St. Charles Square: "I sing concerning the unpleasant expertise of just lately discovering myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, but I’m quite clear in the music. 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