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Atonal Reflections: Vol. I Splender - "Halfway Down the Sky" I've been rummaging through my wall of CDs lately and I've decided to start pulling out some of the discs I haven't listened to in a long time to see how well they've held up over the years. This ongoing "Atonal Reflections" column will chronicle each of these rediscoveries - the good, the bad, and the scratched-beyond-playable. The good will stay and work their way back into a regular rotation. The bad will probably be sold for pennies on eBay to make room for some new material. So far, the whole process has been really weird. Most of these have been in my possession less than 10 years, but some of them call to mind thoughts or events that seem lifetimes away. Take this album for instance. I have no idea what first lead to me to search for them on WinMX back in high school (WinMX! Seriously!), but I remember burning a CD-R with as many of their songs as I could fit on one disc. As ...