About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 47 episodes
- RAINBOW BODY · 21 minThis 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…
- Cameron Winter: Live at Carnegie Hall · 26 minThis 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…
- Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Weekend · 23 minThis 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…
- The Arcadian Wild: Make It Out Alive · 18 minThis week I’m spending time with The Arcadian Wild’s Make It Out Alive, a warm, intricate folk record full of friendship, family, childhood, mortality, beauty, and jubilee. The…
- Days, Time, and Water · 14 minThis week I’m bringing you two records that approach time and memory in very different ways. I begin with The Mountain Goats’ Days, a characteristically sharp and personal record…
- Charley Crockett’s Proverbial West · 12 minThis week I’m spending time with Charley Crockett’s Clovis, a cinematic country and western record full of dusty landscapes, outlaw tales, dangerous young men, and hard-earned…
- Prime Corners and Shadow Clocks · 17 minThis week I’m bringing you two records that move in very different directions. I begin with Office Dog’s Prime Corner, a punchy and lived-in indie rock record full of jangly…
- That the Powers of Hell May Vanish · 6 minNathan Letourneau’s That the Powers of Hell May Vanish brings hymns into a gritty, hard-rock setting without losing the weight and beauty of the words. In this brief…
- Jack Johnson, Stephen Sanchez, and The Lemon Twigs · 16 minThis week I’m bringing you three records that feel like fresh air. I begin with Jack Johnson’s SURFILMUSIC, a warm and charming collection of soundtrack pieces, early four-track…
- Andrew Dittman on Chant, Harmony, and Singing Churches · 1 h 24 minThis week I’m joined by Andrew Dittman — baritone, choirmaster, composer, and the man behind The Kyrial Project — for a rich conversation about chant, harmony, congregational…
- Death Turns to Life · 16 minThis week I'm bringing you into my current listening life. No final verdicts, just first impressions worth sharing. I introduce two artists I've been loving: GLIN, a…
- Musical Creation and a Great Rehearsal · 8 minThis week, we have a talk I recently gave at The Arcadian Wild and The Corner Room show in Birmingham. It's a short piece on what music is, where it comes from, and why a room…
- Winter’s End and Lenten Listening · 10 minIn today’s episode, we look at three records bound together by a shared mood of restraint, melancholy, and beauty. With black-and-white covers and a lingering winter atmosphere…
- Experiment and Porchlight: Two Records Worth Hearing · 12 minIn today’s episode, we look at two very different records that reward attentive listening. One moves through experimental jazz textures and woodwind explorations, while the other…
- Text Painting: Getting In on the Joke · 14 minIn this topical episode of Audio Deacon, we explor text painting - the art of shaping music to mirror the meaning of the words themselves. From Gregorian chant and Handel’s…
- Lost in the Wonder of Listening · 17 minIn today’s episode, we walk through five records that reward careful listening. We move from playful experimental pop-funk to modern minimalism and contemporary jazz, and ending…
- Boycott Heaven and Scenes from Above · 17 minIn today’s episode, we walk through five records that reward careful listening, moving from playful experimental pop to pop rock, modern jazz collaboration, gentle folk…
- An Aural Tasting Menu (Five Recordings Worth Your Time) · 14 minIn today’s episode, we walk through five recordings to start 2026 well, spanning instrumental rock, legacy songwriting, punk, acoustic covers, and laid-back folk-pop. We begin…
- A Smorgasboard of Sound and Spicy Music Listening, with Jarrod Richey · 1 h 20 minThis week we are joined by the great Jarrod Richey to talk about records and music listening, and boy did this brother deliver. We talk about everything from Brad Paisley, to…
- Paul Hillier | Home to Thanksgiving · 8 minIn today's episode, we're taking a look at Paul Hillier's great album of gratitude, Home to Thanksgiving. The Audio Deacon App! https://app.audio-deacon.com/ Use code…
