Population Override is the twelfth studio album by Buckethead

Buckethead

Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

, but it could be seen as his first full collaboration with keyboardist Travis Dickerson

Travis Dickerson

Travis Dickerson is an American musician and producer, best known for his work with Buckethead and Viggo Mortensen. He also runs TDRSmusic, a recording studio with its own record label that has recorded and released albums by Bill Laswell, Jethro Tull, Linda Ronstadt, and Vince DiCola...

. The album is a tribute to the "great vinyl records of the '60s and '70s", with songs more often than not drifting off into long jams.
The album was written after the sessions for the album "Brain Circus", by Cornbugs

Cornbugs

- Track listing of Cornbugs 2001 "Cemetery Pinch" album :- Track listing of Cornbugs 2004 "Brain Circus" album :- Track listing of Cornbugs 2005 "Rest Home for Robots" album :...

, which features Buckethead

Buckethead

Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

, Bill "Choptop" Moseley

Bill Moseley

William "Bill" Moseley is an American film actor and musician who has starred in a number of cult classic horror films, including House of 1000 Corpses, Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Rejects. His first big role was in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 as Chop Top...

, Pinchface

Pinchface

Michael Andrew Hakopian, better known as Pinchface is the drummer of the Deli Creeps, Giant Robot II, and the Cornbugs. He has also appeared on numerous Buckethead albums, such as Population Override and Giant Robot . He has also appeared on numerous occasions in Buckethead's Binge Clip Videos...

 and Travis Dickerson

Travis Dickerson

Travis Dickerson is an American musician and producer, best known for his work with Buckethead and Viggo Mortensen. He also runs TDRSmusic, a recording studio with its own record label that has recorded and released albums by Bill Laswell, Jethro Tull, Linda Ronstadt, and Vince DiCola...

. This album was the start of other albums like Gorgone

Gorgone

Gorgone is a jam project featuring Buckethead, Travis Dickerson and Pinchface. It was recorded during the sessions for Buckethead's album Population Override, but with music not entirely similar to what was featured on that album....

, Chicken Noodles

Chicken Noodles

-Credits:*Buckethead - guitars and bowls of soup.*Travis Dickerson - keyboards....

, and Left Hanging

Left Hanging

Left Hanging is a collaborative album by Buckethead and Travis Dickerson, to be released in December, 2010.The album consists of unreleased tracks from previous sessions by Dickerson and Buckethead and features other musicians, including Pinchface, Ramy Antoun and Bryan "Brain"...

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The cover shows several buildings from downtown Toronto

Toronto

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, including the Royal York Hotel and the Canada Trust Tower.

Track listing

Credits

• Buckethead: guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Travis Dickerson
  Travis Dickerson
  Travis Dickerson is an American musician and producer, best known for his work with Buckethead and Viggo Mortensen. He also runs TDRSmusic, a recording studio with its own record label that has recorded and released albums by Bill Laswell, Jethro Tull, Linda Ronstadt, and Vince DiCola...
  
  : keyboard
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
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• Pinchface
  Pinchface
  Michael Andrew Hakopian, better known as Pinchface is the drummer of the Deli Creeps, Giant Robot II, and the Cornbugs. He has also appeared on numerous Buckethead albums, such as Population Override and Giant Robot . He has also appeared on numerous occasions in Buckethead's Binge Clip Videos...
  
  : drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....