{"product_id":"antarctica-23-03","title":"Antarctica - 23:03","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBefore Antarctica became a cornerstone of late-90s American electronica-shoegaze, there was \u003cem\u003e23:03\u003c\/em\u003e. Fronted by Eric Richter, previously of the beloved Denver emo band Christie Front Drive, the New York group used this three-song EP to sketch out an entirely new sound: guitars dissolved into texture, drum machines sitting alongside live kits, and human voices half-buried in a warm electronic haze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOriginally released on CD by File 13 Records in 1998, \u003cem\u003e23:03\u003c\/em\u003e was the first thing Antarctica ever recorded, and it plays like a band discovering its own vocabulary in real time. The three tracks pull together shoegaze's blurred beauty, the widescreen drift of space rock, and the pulse of late-90s electronica into something that still sounds ahead of its moment. It set the template for the sprawling 1999 debut album \u003cem\u003e81:03\u003c\/em\u003e that followed, but there is a lean, exploratory charm here that makes the EP essential in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFor fans who only know the band through \u003cem\u003e81:03\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the origin point, the sound of a group leaving guitar rock behind and stepping into the machines. For everyone else, it is a lost slice of the era when indie musicians started treating the studio itself as an instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis vinyl edition brings \u003cem\u003e23:03\u003c\/em\u003e to the format for the first time, remastered from the original tapes by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room in Chicago. A long-overdue reissue of a small, quietly influential record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redeye","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47550224433314,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/850045720766-CoverArtImage1.jpg?v=1787440948","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/es\/products\/antarctica-23-03","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}