Bucky Hoover - Invidious

Bucky Hoover

I make music and videos that come from real experience. Everything I create comes from a real state of consciousness I’ve lived through.

My work reflects mental health, trauma, psychology, internal battles, spirituality, self-awareness, and moments that change the way I see the world. I create in whatever sound environment matches the state I’m in at the time, ranging from cyberpunk rock, post-rock, electro-metal, alternative, metal, hip-hop, and rap. I love music in general, and artists like Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, and Hippie Sabotage have been inspirational.

I’m not out for popularity or money. I do what I like with what I have available. You don’t have to like it, share, subscribe, or tip. I just hope the music does what music should. If it does, the rest follows.

This channel is a place where I leave pieces of lived experience. Art, music, off-grid life—I don’t fit into one box. If any of it resonates, good. If not, that’s fine too.

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The Wide World of Web

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1 week ago | [YT] | 1

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Bucky Hoover

I want to clear this up directly, because YouTube makes it confusing if you don’t know how I work.
There are effectively two versions of me on YouTube. One is my actual channel, the one I control and interact on. The other is an auto-generated artist page created by my distributor when something is officially released. Viewers mostly experience that as one thing. I don’t. Comments on distributor uploads don’t notify me unless I go looking, which is why it can seem quiet from my side even when people are talking.
YouTube is not where my albums are born. It’s where things land.
This channel is a dumping ground in the literal sense. If I make something and it needs to exist somewhere, YouTube is where it goes. Sometimes that means a placeholder image because YouTube requires one. Sometimes that means a song that isn’t finished yet. Those uploads are not official releases. They’re works in progress. Early forms. Drafts that may change, get rebuilt, or disappear before ever being tied to an album.
Most of what you hear here isn’t made in real time. It comes from a library of things I’ve already done that sit in files. Some started as instrumentals and lived that way for a long time. When lyrics show up later, I add them and the track changes. Some tracks were built in real time with people who started out as listeners. In those cases, they wrote the lyrics and I brought them into life sonically. Same channel, different origins.
Albums take a long time. Obliviotype took a year to make before anyone heard it here. Self Destruct has taken two years and still isn’t released. I only have a few officially released albums, even if YouTube makes it look like I’m constantly dropping projects.
The timing is intentional. The space between posts is the experiment. I’m watching what happens when a track sits. How people find it. How long it takes. What carries and what doesn’t. That’s why you might see uploads close together, then nothing for a stretch. It’s not inspiration bursts. It’s release timing.
When that library runs out, things catch up to real time. And real time means there may be nothing. I don’t force songs. If nothing has sparked yet, there’s nothing to post.
I can do what I want on my channel. This isn’t marketing and it isn’t a rollout strategy. When the channel got bigger, I had to adjust how I use it, but the work itself didn’t change.
So if something sounds unfinished, familiar, or different later on, that’s why. You’re sometimes hearing music mid-evolution, not a final statement.
Nothing random about it, even if it looks that way from the outside.

1 month ago | [YT] | 5

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Bucky Hoover

Thank you @NikiTrail-t6e8m for being a listener and having me in playlists☠️ -Bucky

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 3

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The track list for the soon to be released album Self Destruct. The majority of the tracks are not on YouTube yet, and the ones that are, have been remade. Some will trickle out before the release, and you'll have to wait until it hits the streaming platforms officially.

My channel is essentially a workspace where I put what I work on, see how I feel about it, and listeners can kind of see that process and relate to the music, perhaps. Then, eventually, I put the album together for release(different than posting the song). It's a dark album, watch the video on what made the album and what it's about 😉

Thanks for listening. You don’t have to like or subscribe to anything. It's pretty cool that you do, though. -Bucky

2 months ago | [YT] | 8

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Bucky Hoover

Alright, check this out — YouTube just dropped a brand new feature called Hype. It’s basically a way for you to boost my videos way beyond just hitting like. I’m gonna show you exactly where the button is, what it does, and why it matters.

On mobile, when you’re watching a new video from a creator with somewhere between 500 and 500,000 subscribers, the Hype button is sitting right under the player, in the same row as like, dislike, share, and save. If it’s not there, tap ‘More’ on the video description, and you’ll see it up in the top left. Look for the little fire or star icon — that’s the Hype button.

On desktop, it’s the same deal. You’ll see it under the video, right in line with like, dislike, and share, or you can find it in the video description.

Now, here’s how it works: each of you gets three free Hypes a week. Think of them like tokens — you only drop them on the videos you really vibe with. Once you Hype a video, it earns Hype points. Those points can push it onto the weekly Hype Leaderboard, and that means way more people see it. Hyped videos even get a little badge so everyone knows they’re trending.

And here’s the kicker — Hype gives smaller creators like me an extra boost. Each Hype actually counts more if the channel is smaller, so it levels the playing field against the giants who already dominate. That one click from you has way more weight than a regular like.

So if you’re watching this within the first seven days of me posting — look for that Hype button, tap it, and drop one of your three weekly Hypes right here. That single click can push this video way further than you’d think.

5 months ago | [YT] | 7

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Bucky Hoover

Happy to say I've committed to reworking my first album and I will say that I'm four tracks into it already and it's fuckin ☠️SIK☠️. High energy and staying true to my roots . Feel free to let me know if you would like the tracks trickled out or just dumped into YouTube 😆 -Bucky