Paul Bergmann "Always, Forever"

Paul Bergmann will release his debut full-length album, Stars And Streams, on August 26. The album is the follow up to the criticially acclaimed Romantic Thoughts EP out now on Fairfax Recordings. Bergmann says of one of the tracks, “'Always, Forever' is an impersonal song for me. I feel a fond detachment toward it, as if it's always existed on its own. I don't remember finding the words to write it and sometimes I'm not sure it's me singing it. It seems to be about acceptance, love, the feeling of standing before a tall mountain. Meaning. But it's probably not about anything at all. Sometimes I wish to live in this song when I'm deeply sad." 

While the Los Angeles-based solo artist sings and writes songs, he doesn’t find the term endearing. Such a label makes it easy to identify a type of solo artist, but it also conjures up a desperate effort to impress an American Idolized public. And Bergmann isn’t writing songs to be so “right now.” He’s taking influence from the deep cuts, the soulful cuts, the timeless cuts of American pop—Phil Spector girl groups to Elliott Smith B-sides—Leonard Cohen’s vulnerability to Nebraska-era Springsteen’s simplicity. But Bergmann’s going full Wittgenstein, searching for and establishing a new timelessness.

​For more information visit his official website.