Björn Bergmann - First World Problems (2026) [Hi-Res]

Björn Bergmann's debut album First World Problems was released digitally on 3 May 2026 via his own imprint Mausi Missal Music, with a physical CD edition scheduled for 19 June 2026.
The album was co-written and co-produced with pianist and creative partner Simon Anke, whose contribution proved central to bridging what seemed an impossible gap: ballroom elegance and Sinatra-era warmth set against the unvarnished realities of contemporary Berlin life. Bergmann himself coined the term "Urban Swing" for the result — a deliberate collision between the glamour of the 1920s and the raw texture of the present.
Trained at the Jazz-Institut Berlin and the Universität der Künste Berlin, Bergmann carries the jazz tradition not as an aesthetic pose but as a lived stance, confronting it head-on with the moment he inhabits. His "Urban Swing" is less a nostalgic retrieval than a productive friction: between the opulence of the 1950s and the studied accessibility of contemporary pop, a sound emerges that resists easy categorisation.
The lyrics deliberately break with the innocence of classic jazz repertoire. As an openly gay man in today's Berlin, Bergmann fills his musical space with themes that genuinely move him — identity, the absurd comedy of failure, and the limits of self-improvement culture. Lead single "Coffee First" offers a wry brake on the tyranny of to-do lists; "So Boring" is a winking elegy for the minor irritations of city life; "Love Don't Come This Way" consoles those who discover, after a night on the dancefloor, that a kiss is sometimes just a kiss.
The questions Bergmann raises — does romance still exist in the metropolis, what survives the morning after Berghain — are unmistakably of this moment. First World Problems is the statement of a generation balancing self-optimisation against collective burnout, delivered with lightness, wit, and a voice that refuses to choose between the ballroom and the basement.




Tracklist:
1-1 Björn Bergmann - Coffee First [2:55]
1-2 Björn Bergmann - Too Much Lovin' [3:00]
1-3 Björn Bergmann - Love Don't Come This Way [3:02]
1-4 Björn Bergmann - Everything Will Be Alright [2:26]
1-5 Björn Bergmann - Feelings [2:36]
1-6 Björn Bergmann - Every Time the Sun Shines [4:28]
1-7 Björn Bergmann - Gabriel [3:48]
1-8 Björn Bergmann - When the Devil Calls My Name [3:36]
1-9 Björn Bergmann - Try Again [2:44]
1-10 Björn Bergmann - So Boring [2:32]
1-11 Björn Bergmann - Losing You [4:15]
1-12 Björn Bergmann - Thing Called Love [4:12]