<img class="alignleft" title="Half Film CD Reissues" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/half_film_re-issues_MED.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213" target="_blank">CD</a> and <a href="http://agora.hiddehttp://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/half-film/nshoal.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213">digital</a> availability for the reissue of two late 90's slowcore masterpieces <em>East of Monument</em> and <em>The Road to the Crater</em> by San Franciscan trio<strong> <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/half-film/" target="_blank">Half Film</a></strong>. Both albums are available together as a <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213" target="_blank">specially priced double CD</a> and singley in digital formats. All CD orders come with an immediate download of both albums.

Before releasing music on Hidden Shoal as <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/">[The] Caseworker</a>, Conor and Eimer Devlin, along with drummer Jason Lakis, made up slowcore trio Half Film. Their two acclaimed albums - <em>East of Monument</em> and <em>The Road to the Crater</em> - are now lovingly reissued by Hidden Shoal. With a sound mapped out so definitively, it’s difficult not to immerse yourself completely in this music’s shadowy topography.

<em>“Low-key underground guitar atmos that’s very moody indeed... Stark like Joy Division and darkly melodic like Neil Young - 4/5”</em> - <strong>Melody Maker on Half Film’s second album, <em>The Road to the Crater</em></strong>

Right from <em>East of Monument</em>’s languid opener ‘Weather Patterns’, it’s clear there’s a deliberate, measured and deeply rewarding melodic map unfolding, akin to classic releases by Codeine and Low. This aesthetic is explored, refined and distilled across the two records, and by the time <em>The Road to the Crater</em>’s finale ‘Themselves’ has played out, the special pocket of indie-rock that Half Film inhabited completely in the late ’90s has been revealed anew.

Head to the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/half-film/">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab your copy now and stream both albums in full. To get you in the mood the track 'Machines, Hawks And The Perfect Equation' is also available fro <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=210">free download</a>.

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Half Film - 'Machines, Hawks And The Perfect Equation'