Kevin Bronson on February 10th, 2022

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The Letter Openers have been around since before 9/11. The brainchild of Mac Dunlop and Martin Ransbury, their pedal-to-the-metal hard rock fit well in L.A.’s “Kiss or Kill” collective (see this documentary), a group of promoters and bands who disdained the Sunset Strip’s pay-to-play shenanigans and Silver Lake’s too-cool-for-school indie-rock scene to stage their own club nights.

The Letter Openers released their lone full-length, “All The Time Right Now,” in 2005 and made a second album that was never released, the band having parted ways in 2008. But Dunlop and Ransbury got back together in 2018, and they released a handful of singles over the ensuing two years.

So cheers to the new single, “Restless and Idle,” which is just riffy enough to be a Letter Openers song but somehow doesn’t sound like anything they’ve done before.

||| Stream: “Restless and Idle”