On Barbaric: “It may be a few lost love or it can be about all of the 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 additionally means readability. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, it really occurred that method. 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 Sq.: "I sing concerning the unpleasant experience of just lately finding myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, but I’m fairly clear in the music. I’m not going to be the primary or the last to screw something up and should cope with penalties.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023