On Barbaric: “It may be a few misplaced love or it may also be about out of the blue and unexpectedly getting rid of melancholy. And even in the event you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. Because it also means readability. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, it really happened that approach. The songs are already quite accurate inventories of my life, I’m fairly open right here on this album. Only typically the mysterious peeps across the nook.

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

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023