Recorded and mixed by Abdullah frontman Jeff Shirilla, Sadness trudges through five songs in 40 minutes. Matthew Servenack's lumbering riffs move more slowly than a tar-dipped octogenarian. Singer-bassist Todd Fabian alternates a pained gargle with cleanly sung vocals, sounding like Ozzy Osbourne after he spits the marbles from his mouth. Compounded by Rob Craig's heavy-handed drumming, it all culminates in epic dirges, like the 10-minute, album-closing "Purge." There's just one problem for this terminally dejected bunch: When the stoner-rock hordes get hold of this disc, Centrifuge will no longer be Loveless. Then what will they bemoan?