The phrase "allows the listener to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing how something provides an opportunity or capability for the listener to do something.
Example: "The speaker's clear explanations allow the listener to grasp complex concepts easily."
Alternatives: "enables the listener to" or "permits the listener to".
"We still wanted to stay true to what we love to do, which is to give people the songs that we're listening to and combining them in a way that allows the listener to escape.
Jeremy Northam's narration brilliantly creates Waugh's self-parodying dialogue, but also allows the listener to feel the damage done to the outsider, Charles.
"It has a meditative quality that allows the listener to be more engaged, whereas a pop song usually tells you how to feel and what the story is.
A good coda will introduce new material that allows the listener to look back and reflect on the themes of the rest of the song whilst providing a balanced emotional counterpart to the preceding four minutes.
The button allows the listener to switch from one to another, but that's the extent of user control over the experience, leading some observers to refer to the thing as the anti-iPod.
One of the pleasures of a great album is the way it allows the listener to conjure up pictures in their head: it's hard to do that when you have to look at someone else's.
Naturally the beauty of listening to ambience, however detailed it may sound, is in allowing the listener to impose his or her own surroundings onto it.
Subscription-based services, which allow the listener to rent music, are extremely popular.
Because as every propagandist knows, you allow the listener to fill in the rest".
Like the pause of an airlock cycling, they allow the listener to acclimatise to Granduciel's wounded headspace.
Although Ms Koenig has appeared to be batting for Syed, her switching between belief in his guilt or innocence has allowed the listener to play armchair detective.
