On Barbaric: “It can be a few misplaced love or it may also be about out of the blue and unexpectedly getting rid of melancholy. And even should you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. Because it additionally means clarity. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, nicely, it really happened that method. The songs are already fairly accurate 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 unpleasant experience of just lately discovering myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, but I’m quite clear in the track. I’m not going to be the first or the last to screw something up and should cope with consequences.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023