Audio Deacon

About Audio Deacon

Audio Deacon provides music reviews and lists of albums to teach maturing Christians how to listen to records and what music to consume in our modern age. Audio Deacon also serves as a resource to parents, guiding them in modern music’s contents, glories, pitfalls, and conversations.

Publisher

Brian Moats

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Feb 2025

Latest episode

31 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Oct 2026

   RAINBOW BODY

   This week I’m spending time with Rainbow Body’s self-titled debut, a collaboration featuring members of Dawes, Goose, Soulive, and more. Moving through psychedelic rock, Americana, soul, and folk, the record pairs wonderful harmonies and adventurous guitar work with some humor, elusive poetry, and songs that keep revealing something new. It’s an earthy, inviting rock record from musicians who clearly take the fun seriously. I also reflect on the spiritual imagery behind the band’s name and ho...

2. 

   10 Oct 2026

   Cameron Winter: Live at Carnegie Hall

   This week I’m spending time with Cameron Winter’s Live at Carnegie Hall, a stripped-down concert of the Geese frontman alone at a piano, singing striking, mysterious, and heartbreaking poetry. His passionate performances move through loneliness, troubled identity, longing, and flashes of humor, with songs that sound haunted by Christ Himself. This album lives inside human yearning, and occasionally pokes its head above the water to declare that God is real. I also consider how beauty can awak...

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Weekend

   This week I’m spending time with Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend, a haunted and personal folk record shaped by grief, romantic devotion, family relationships, and the longing to make peace with the past. Bridgers surrounds these stories with ghostlike vocals, static, distortion, and moments of startling beauty, creating an album that feels simultaneously immediate and out of reach. I also consider the Christian hope that answers the album’s yearning for love, reconciliation, and glory. Happy li...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

40

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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