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

On St. Charles Sq.: "I sing concerning the unpleasant expertise of lately discovering myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, however I’m quite clear in the music. 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