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

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

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023