<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 pre-orders</a> 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 style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/half-film/" target="_blank">Half Film</a></strong>. Both albums will be released 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 format. All CD pre-orders come with an immediate download of both albums. The albums will see official release on 31st of October.

Before releasing music on Hidden Shoal as <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/">[The] Caseworke</a>r, 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/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to pre-order your copy now and stream both albums in full.

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Half Film - 'Coated'