On Barbaric: “It can be a few misplaced love or it may also be about abruptly and unexpectedly getting rid of melancholy. And even in the event 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 actually happened that means. The songs are already quite correct inventories of my life, I’m pretty open here on this album. Solely typically the mysterious peeps around the nook.

On St. Charles Square: "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 fairly clear within the music. I’m not going to be the first or the last to screw one thing up and should cope with penalties.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023