On Barbaric: “It may be a few misplaced love or it can be about all of the sudden and unexpectedly getting rid of melancholy. And even when 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 approach. The songs are already fairly correct inventories of my life, I’m pretty open right here on this album. Only typically the mysterious peeps across the corner.

On St. Charles Sq.: "I sing concerning the disagreeable experience of just lately discovering 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 primary or the last to screw something up and should cope with consequences.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023