On Barbaric: “It may be a few lost love or it may also be about instantly and unexpectedly eliminating melancholy. And even when you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. As a result of it additionally means readability. And earlier than you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, 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 nook.

On St. Charles Sq.: "I sing concerning the disagreeable experience of lately discovering myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, but I’m fairly clear in the music. I’m not going to be the first or the last to screw one thing up and need to cope with consequences.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023