On Barbaric: “It can be a few misplaced love or it may also be about out of the blue and unexpectedly getting rid of melancholy. And even for those who understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. Because it also means readability. And earlier than you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, it actually occurred that means. The songs are already fairly accurate inventories of my life, I’m fairly open here on this album. Only typically the mysterious peeps across the nook.

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 fairly clear in the track. I’m not going to be the primary or the final to screw something up and need to cope with consequences.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023