On Barbaric: “It can be a few lost love or it may also be about all of a sudden and unexpectedly eliminating melancholy. And even in the event you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. Because it additionally means clarity. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, it really happened that method. The songs are already quite correct inventories of my life, I’m pretty open right here on this album. Solely typically the mysterious peeps around the corner.

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 fairly clear within 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