On Barbaric: “It may be a few lost love or it can be about all of a sudden 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, nicely, it actually happened that means. The songs are already quite accurate inventories of my life, I’m pretty open right here on this album. Solely typically the mysterious peeps across the nook.

On St. Charles Square: "I sing concerning the disagreeable expertise of lately finding 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 one thing up and should cope with penalties.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023