Reposted by GarethClash Magazine @clashmusic.com · 11/10/2026Just Played is our space to celebrate vinyl releases - this edition, we go deep on Soul Revivers excellent new album, alongside re-issues from The Sundays, Mojave 3, The Go-Betweens, and more. www.clashmusic.com/features/jus... 041
Reposted by GarethGareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026How has the last month or so sounded on vinyl? Find out with my latest column for @clashmusic.com www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...clashmusic.comJust Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #73 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & InterviewsTime for the end of summer round up then. The nights are drawing in and about 50% of recent releases have a slight warp after being moved around 0135
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026How has the last month or so sounded on vinyl? Find out with my latest column for @clashmusic.com www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...clashmusic.comJust Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #73 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & InterviewsTime for the end of summer round up then. The nights are drawing in and about 50% of recent releases have a slight warp after being moved around 0135
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Looks nice, doesn’t it? Could almost convince me of the merits of coloured vinyl pressings 030
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s better than 7/10, by the way. I was cautious back then. 110
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And, after all that time, looks like I’ll be covering it again thanks to @unspunheroes.com’s wonderful work on an opulent vinyl edition. Bonus point for the personally labelled pointless OBI! 330
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Seventeen years ago, one of the first things I reviewed for @clashmusic.com was the second Dan Arborise album, having fallen hard for his debut: 141
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This series was mentioned in the recent @webuyrecords.bsky.social episode. Words fail me 263
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oh god. Why?! That is madness. That level of detail and then they sacrifice the actual pressing 000
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There’s a new @clashmusic.com column imminent, but the next one is already taking shape with Mo-Fi The National & Angel Olsen, DSS R.E.M. & Hole, the new Beatles box and this all-analogue Terry Callier all set to feature 050
Reposted by GarethWe Buy Records Podcast @webuyrecords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ep 79. A new 30 quid club entrant, the 1000 club, more AI nonsense, Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social with a full run down of new vinyl. National Album Day. Letters, vinyl stupidity, quiz and your usual crate digging shenanigans Episode link pod.link/1456163688 Support the show ko-fi.com/webuyrecords 3308
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New mastering. “Sourced from the original masters, mastered by engineer Krieg Wunderlich, strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing…16-bit / 44.1kHz digital master to analog console to lathe” 101
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Steven Wilson remix of ‘Coming Up’ feels pretty good to these ears. 030
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026@octopus.energy 6 weeks of the dire scratchcard and nothing but Greggs vouchers. If Caffè Nero pulled out or just massively reduced their commitment to the programme, why not just say? This used to be an appreciated perk. 020
Reposted by GarethWe Buy Records Podcast @webuyrecords.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Ep 78. We share listener's pre streaming discovery tales, a bumper letter bag, meta glasses get renamed, a quiz, lady pop and all your usual crate digging larks. Our cloud recording for @justplayed.bsky.social failed halfway, so he's half cooked until we recover it. Episode pod.link/1456163688 7268
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026One of the rare occasions where the unnecessary apostrophe isn’t the most annoying thing in an advert 050
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Unlikely, but they seem keen to release literally everything they can in every possible iteration, so who knows?! 010
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Thank you for the kind words about the latest column. Listening underway for the next one: 170
Reposted by GarethGareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The latest edition of my @clashmusic.com vinyl review column is now live. Fling it before the eyes of the record lovers in your lives. Including you, of course: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...clashmusic.comJust Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #72 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & InterviewsThere’s quite the selection for you this time around, with a number of huge artists returning, some newbies doing very fine work and a few deluxe 2245
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026That is utterly appalling. And far too common. No quality control at all these days. 010
Reposted by GarethUnspun Heroes® @unspunheroes.com · 11/08/2026A fantastic round up, as ever. Worth reading the Gish review for the final paragraph alone. 162
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The latest edition of my @clashmusic.com vinyl review column is now live. Fling it before the eyes of the record lovers in your lives. Including you, of course: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...clashmusic.comJust Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #72 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & InterviewsThere’s quite the selection for you this time around, with a number of huge artists returning, some newbies doing very fine work and a few deluxe 2245
Reposted by GarethPete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 04/08/2026John Douglas 1963-2026. Sending all my love to Eddi, Frank, Stephen, Paul, Davy and all of John's co-travellers in life.patreon.com“Robert Burns said, ‘You’ve got to rivet words together just to hear them clang.’ That always stuck with me.” John Douglas (1963-2026) | Pete PaphidesOh God. Not John? Surely not John? To the best of my knowledge John had never done anything as shocking, anything as dramatic as this. Low-k 310425
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026@faberbooks.bsky.social Is the whole John McGahern catalogue getting re-done in the style of the four titles released last week? 000
Reposted by GarethJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This mimsy, excuses-filled piece on loudcasting fails to point out even once that if we vaporise all offenders, their poor genetic material will not be passed on to future genersations.bbc.co.ukWhy phones on loudspeaker may become just another noisePlaying music or videos out loud on your phone is bemoaned by many - but in the future, it might not seem so outlandish 7527
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Suggests that somebody has been listening to the final few Low albums: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...theguardian.comPhoebe Bridgers: Lost Weekend review – long-awaited return is a thrilling, daring study in dislocationAfter sweeping the Grammys and being scrutinised by the press, Bridgers deploys electronics and unsettling sound design to brilliantly evoke emotional turmoil 040
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Whatever we might suspect, if Modella are keen to build a successful, streamlined version of TG Jones as they say, why visibly sell off all the stock at a discount when it could be redistributed to other, still operational, shops? 130
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Absolutely. And I know, there must be a market or they wouldn’t make it, but still… 010
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Who comes up with this shit? Another exciting way to do variants 382
Reposted by GarethMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Will there ever be a day of our lives where we're not called upon to think about Farage? I'd got all the way to noon. It's like that thing with 'Last Christmas'. 2139945
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Exactly! Too risky these days unless it’s something you *must* have regardless 010
Reposted by GarethWe Buy Records Podcast @webuyrecords.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Ep 77. Rolling Stones merch, a listener's fever dream, more Flip Vinyl shenanigans, @justplayed.bsky.social new vinyl reviews, The Flaming Lips (again), news, features, vinyl stupidity and of course a quiz. pod.link/1456163688 Support the show. ko-fi.com/webuyrecords 41810
Reposted by GarethPete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The worst thing about James Blake's "Can't trust a review" claim is that it's unleashed a swarm of agreement from conspiracy theorists & musicians who (for whatever reason) never made it. FWIW, neither I or any journalist I know has ever been offered money by a label in exchange for a review. 3303
Reposted by GarethMatt Jones @maffrj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A nice quiet first hour in the office before the hoards descend, perfectly soundtracked by the new Coral album. It really is as good as you all said isn't it? 2102
Reposted by GarethGareth @justplayed.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Are you in need of a helpful vinyl review column to give you purchasing tips for the weekend ahead? If so, my new one for @clashmusic.com is live now: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...clashmusic.comJust Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #71 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & InterviewsIt has been a bumper month and a bit since all of the fuss around RSD and there is much to please your ears in what follows. Some big hitters are back, 1178
Reposted by GarethMusic Saves (Worthing) @musicsavesuk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026whether you’re throwing money away on an average or sub standard pressing and package. So it is with such major relief to get such a glowing review of the album for the musical content, the vinyl pressing and the package we’ve put together! Review at www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...clashmusic.comJust Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #71 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & InterviewsIt has been a bumper month and a bit since all of the fuss around RSD and there is much to please your ears in what follows. Some big hitters are back, 141
Reposted by GarethMusic Saves (Worthing) @musicsavesuk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Out of all the reviews for the Late Transmissions album the one I was most nervous for and anticipating was from Clash magazine’s vinyl specific column. Gareth quite rightly doesn’t take any prisoners, knowing full well for music fans the cost of investing in a record in this age, and 111