Released under Sidemount Snorkel Team Playtenfirm Records, Reach the Stars finally landed on August 22, 2025, with airplay already teasing listeners since August 8. Mixed by Stephan Steiner and mastered by Dan Suter, the record is a massive collaborative feat, yet it’s Alex Wellker’s pen, vision, and voice that hold it all together. With SUISA Switzerland handling copyrights, the album is locked in as a carefully sculpted, emotionally turbulent journey.
Right from “We Knew It All,” Wellker sets the bar high. The song opens with shimmering guitar lines stitched against slow, heavy strings, while drums rumble underneath like distant thunder. The piano flows in mystic ripples, and cymbals slice through with icy splashes. It feels cinematic, like watching grief unspool in real time. The vocals cut especially deep, his thick, emphatic voice, soaked in melancholy, making the whole track ache with sincerity.
Fast-forward to “Tu es ici,” and the atmosphere changes. A mournful flute floats like smoke before the grinding guitars and pounding drums crash in. Then comes the slithering, writhing violin comes like a trail of blood running through the hectic soundscape. Amidst all this, the piano still calmly passes through. Not to forget, Wellker is still singing, in broken, haunting, and slow pace, as though he’s choking on the words he’s forcing out.
“Now The Pages Been Turned – Acoustic” is stripped down to just an acoustic guitar. In his defiant, heartfelt voice, Wellker sings, “I will not bow down to you.” It’s raw, bare, and stubbornly human—the closer that stays lodged in your chest.
In short, Reach the Stars is equal parts grandeur and gut-punch, where Alex Wellker shows us how to marry cinematic soundscapes with emotion, humanity, and profundity.
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Review by: Naomi Joan