Peasant Magik probably put out some of the ugly-looking tapes I’ve ever seen, and the content on this one is no prettier, but it’s a diligent effort that’s at least half attractive in its droning highway protraction. Yet driving for ages has never appealed to this passenger, and its meditative qualities here are a little emetic. The trip begins wickedly, cosmic chainsaw ignitions and amethyst exhaust oscillations spraying everywhere like startled ohmns, all conducted between tectonic plates of glass and electronic organ vibrato straight out of a reenacted Bonnie and Clyde hijacking, but like its somewhat overwrought and unwittingly self-deprecating title, “Mirror of Reflection” looks elsewhere for variation, and comes up with Nothing Inc., ending up idling in a cul de sac of modulated boom and amplified air conditioning on a deserted eternal road paved with astro-turf and lined with artificial rock. Side two teleports to a slow-mo precipice of cactus buzz saw, seesaw counterpoint cascade and guitar coruscation that sweeps with aching grace from its designated exit but ends up on a dead ringer route of entrenched decay and slightly variable electric moan. With additional releases on Digitalis, Heavy Blossom, JK Tapes, Arbor, and Students of Decay, Sarah’s Charity’s “Mirror of Abundance” is obviously no terminal and fatal mistake, but again, its titular impression of vitreous deferral and simulated promise suggests that we look there elsewhere for a more persuasive statement, and that this is just a detour. But who round here wants to take the straight lane anyway? 5/10 -- E.R. Chatterton (11 November, 2009)