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. As a result of it additionally means readability. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, it really occurred that approach. The songs are already quite correct inventories of my life, I’m fairly open right here on this album. Only typically the mysterious peeps around the nook.

On St. Charles Square: "I sing concerning the disagreeable experience of just lately discovering myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, but I’m fairly clear in the track. I’m not going to be the first or the final to screw one thing up and need to cope with penalties.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023