On Barbaric: “It may be a few lost love or it may also be about out of the blue and unexpectedly eliminating melancholy. And even for those who understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. As a result of it additionally means readability. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, it actually happened that means. The songs are already fairly correct inventories of my life, I’m pretty open here on this album. Only typically the mysterious peeps across the corner.

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

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023