On Barbaric: “It can be a few misplaced love or it may also be about all of the sudden and unexpectedly eliminating melancholy. And even when you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. As a result of it also means readability. And earlier than you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, it actually happened that method. The songs are already quite correct inventories of my life, I’m fairly open here on this album. Only typically the mysterious peeps around the nook.

On St. Charles Square: "I sing concerning the unpleasant 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 first or the final to screw one thing up and should cope with penalties.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023