May 2026 – Dickens of a Blog

This past weekend, a pretty notable stormfront moved through and not only dropped a good amount of rain, but also did weird stuff to the pressure.

Somewhere in there, plus an undiscovered bit of blockage in our outgoing pipes (presumably), the extra water + “wax-sealed bottle” effect + pressure ups-and-downs resulted in several liters of rancid water burping back into our garage.

To quote my description shared with a friend at the time:

I could tell you what it smelled like, but you’d never eat Taco Bell again.

It was rank and it covered most everything in the garage.

Kaz took charge and got a lot of stuff cleaned and since then I’ve done spot disinfecting as I locate a place that obvious needs it and, frankly, it all needs it. Spiritual taint abounds.

We called a professional who came out and got the pipes cleaned out and washed back out the sediment and such that had been shoved forcibly into our system.

Now I’m washing dishes with a sense of dread. Just waiting to hear The Burp again.

I’m not 100% sure I can make sense of a regular “Last Week’s Top 10” because (a) I listen to a lot of [self-curated] playlists and (b) I listen to large swaths of background music. In both cases, just letting the PLEX Algorithm Gods take the wheel. There have been a few peak songs this past week, though, so this is one of the cases where it might work.

Going to start a record and see if there’s anything interesting to note in a week or two.

The Top 10 last week (27 April to 03 May, 2026)

Yorushika – Bubbles
tuki. – Zero
tuki. – Bansanka
majiko – Kurai Kurai
Yorushika – Amy
Yorushika – In May, From the Emerald Green Window
krage – Request
Sawano Hiroyuki (feat Tomorrow x Together) – LEvel
Bear McCreary (feat Serj Tankian) – Godzilla
veno – Becoming

Overall Analysis and Comments

There is only a slight surprise, here, which I will discuss.

March and April have largely been the “Months of Yorushika” for me — second person has topped monthly plays for both March 2026 and April 2026 by a margin — and their new single, “Bubbles,” is backed by a fun music video.

Likewise, tuki. — a fairly new artist to me — was first picked up pretty hard by a clever video for “Zero” which plays a singer revealing their face.

As for majiko’s “Kurai Kurai,” the video is quite fun but the song continues just to show up near the top top since it was released.

The surprise, though, is that Ado’s “Kira” isn’t on the list. In this case, it might because I’ve mostly listened to it via the music video, but it feels like it should show up.

Oh, speaking of surprises, there was definitely a fair amount of listening to Oliver Tree’s new album. And I would have guessed Brandy Senki’s “End of the F***ing World” would have been there since that’s cropped up multiple times in the playlists.

I’m also not 100% sure what counts as a play, here. I feel like I’ve listened to several of those songs more than given. Anyhow, I’ll keep tracking it as it goes and it seems interesting I’ll keep doing it.

2026 so far…

Lots of Yorushika and with majiko up top. I guess the main two that have “dropped” off in the past couple of weeks are Pami’s “Candydate” and Zico’s “Duet” with Lilas. A couple of weeks ago also had a fairly heavy Gorillaz rotation which has slowed.