This Adultery Is Ripe

This Adultery Is Ripe
Studio album by The Blood Brothers
Released	August 28, 2000
Recorded	December 10–12, 1999
Studio	Studio Litho (Seattle, Washington)
Genre	Post-hardcore
Length	21:47
Label	Second Nature
Producer	Matt Bayles, The Blood Brothers
The Blood Brothers chronology
This Adultery Is Ripe (2000) March on Electric Children (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

This Adultery Is Ripe is the debut studio album by the American post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers, released in August 2000. Produced by Matt Bayles, this album was recorded over a weekend ^[2] on a limited budget, and has been described as "stripped-down" and catchy by singer Jordan Blilie ^[3] The artwork to This Adultery Is Ripe is almost entirely composed of pictures taken from the 1967 film The Graduate , which is described as a "cinematic masterpiece" in the liner notes.

Track listing

All tracks are written by The Blood Brothers.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rescue"	2:06
2.	"Doctor! Doctor!"	3:29
3.	"The Face in the Embryo"	2:21
4.	"James Brown"	1:05
5.	"Mutiny on the Ark of the Blood Brothers"	2:09
6.	"Jordan Blilie Pets the Wild Horse's Mane"	1:47
7.	"Marooned on Piano Island"	1:55
8.	"This Adultery Is Ripe"	1:37
9.	"Time for Tenderness"	3:24
10.	"Jennifer"	1:54

Personnel

The Blood Brothers

• Jordan Blilie – vocals
• Mark Gajadhar – drums
• Morgan Henderson – bass
• Cody Votolato – guitar
• Johnny Whitney – vocals

Production and design

• Matt Bayles - producer
• The Blood Brothers - co-producer
• Dan Dean – design
• Ian Bartholomew – photography

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Additional Notes
United States	2000	Second Nature Recordings	Compact disc	SN022
		Hopscotch	LP	Hopscotch #14	Pressed twice, first on black vinyl, second on white. Total amounts unknown.
		Sound Virus		Sound Virus #1	116 clear vinyl copies, unknown amount of black vinyl copies.

References

1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r587621
2. "BettaWreckonize -- Interviews". www.bettawreckonize.com. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
3. Archived 2008-01-17 at the Wayback Machine .