On Barbaric: “It may be a few lost love or it can be about instantly and unexpectedly getting rid of melancholy. And even should you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. Because it also means readability. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, nicely, it really occurred that means. The songs are already fairly accurate inventories of my life, I’m pretty open right here on this album. Solely typically the mysterious peeps across the nook.

On St. Charles Square: "I sing concerning the disagreeable expertise of just lately discovering myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, but I’m quite clear within the track. I’m not going to be the primary or the final to screw something up and should cope with consequences.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023