On Barbaric: “It may be a few lost love or it can be about all of the sudden and unexpectedly eliminating melancholy. And even in the event you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. Because it also means clarity. And earlier than you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, nicely, it really occurred that method. The songs are already quite correct inventories of my life, I’m fairly open here on this album. Solely typically the mysterious peeps around the corner.

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

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023