Listener is an experimental spoken word band that started in 2002 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It deviates from hip-hop collective Deepspace5. Listener is composed of Dan Smith as both vocalist and lyricist and Christin Nelson as composer. Their music has been described as "talk music," a style that has been describerd as being "a wide spanning style that features a heavy vocal element that is neither screamed, sang, or just spoken.
The lyrics are more like ranting poetry(also known as slam poetry)."