Bounty (album)

Bounty
Studio album by iamamiwhoami
Released 3 June 2013
Recorded 2010–11
Genre Synthpop, ambient, experimental, dream pop, trip hop, downtempo
Length 43:22
Label To whom it may concern., Cooperative Music
Director Robin Kempe-Bergman
Producer Claes Björklund, Jonna Lee
iamamiwhoami chronology

kin
(2012)		 bounty
(2013)		 BLUE
(2014)

Bounty (stylized as bounty) is the second audiovisual album produced by the electronic music project iamamiwhoami, pseudonym of Swedish singer-songwriter Jonna Lee. Originally produced and released as a series of singles throughout 2010 and 2011, it was later released as an album on 3 June 2013 on iamamiwhoami's label To whom it may concern, distributed by Cooperative Music, a group of independent labels. The first music video of bounty titled "b" was released on 14 March 2010 on iamamiwhoami's YouTube channel. After which followed "o", "u-1", "u-2", "n", "t" and "y". Digital singles are released shortly after each music video is uploaded to YouTube. The titles collectively formed the word "bounty". While it was assumed that these songs solely consisted of bounty's tracklist, in 2011 two more singles and music videos, "; john" and "clump" were released and were not confirmed as belonging to Bounty until June 2012 when iamamiwhoami's YouTube channel grouped them into a playlist named bounty along with the previous tracks mentioned.

On 4 December 2012, iamamiwhoami's label website To whom it may concern. was updated with a note on the front page which stated "20130603 – iamamiwhoami; bounty", forecasting a physical release of the bounty series. This was confirmed on the very next day when the Release section of the website displayed Bounty's album cover art, along with its tracklist.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 71/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]
Consequence of Sound [3]
Drowned in Sound 7/10[4]
musicOMH [5]
This Is Fake DIY 6/10[6]

Sasha Geffen from Consequence of Sound,[3] Jon Clark from Drowned in Sound,[7] AllMusic,[2] musicOMH[5] and This Is Fake DIY[6] reviewed the album generally positive.

Tour

As with kin, the group embarked upon a worldwide tour for the album, including their first North American performances.

Date City Country Event
Europe
19 May 2013 Barcelona Spain Razzmatazz
30 May 2013 London England Electric Brixton
1 June 2013 Dublin Ireland Forbidden Fruit Festival
30 June 2013 Moscow Russia Park Live Festival
12 July 2013 Trenčín Slovakia Pohoda
19 July 2013 Gräfenhainichen Germany Melt! Festival
21 July 2013 Southwold England Latitude Festival
18 August 2012 Gdańsk Poland Soundrive Festival
22 September 2012 Oakdale United States Symbiosis Gathering
24 September 2013 Brooklyn Brooklyn Masonic Temple

Track listing

Including digital, CD+DVD and LP+DVD formats.

All songs written and composed by Jonna Lee and Claes Björklund. 

No. Title Length
1. "b"   3:29
2. "o"   6:37
3. "u-1"   2:39
4. "u-2"   3:41
5. "n"   4:35
6. "t"   4:39
7. "y"   6:37
8. "; john"   6:39
9. "clump"   4:27

References

  1. ↑ "bounty Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Phares, Heather. "bounty - Iamamiwhoami". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Geffen, Sasha. "Album Review: iamamiwhoami – bounty". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  4. ↑ Clark, Jon (2013-06-12). "bouty Review". Drownedinsound.com. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Payne, Aaron. "iamamiwhoami – bounty". musicOMH. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Watts, Tom. "iamamiwhoami - bounty". This Is Fake DIY. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  7. ↑ Clark, Jon. "iamamiwhoami - bounty". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 20 June 2013.

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