Kevin Bronson on December 3rd, 2019

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After long-running indie-rockers the Afghan Whigs finished touring finished behind their 2017 album “In Spades,” Greg Dulli found himself a man without a band.

Drummer Patrick Keeler was busy with his other band, the Raconteurs, and Whigs co-founder John Curley was going back to school. The band’s guitarist, Dave Rosser, had died of cancer just after the album came out.

So Dulli, a native Ohioan and now longtime Angeleno, went the DIY route, writing all the songs and playing almost all of the instruments on his new solo album, “Random Desire” (out Feb. 21). And judging from the pulsing, menacing lead track “Pantomina,” the music figures to fit right in with a catalog that includes eight full-lengths by the Afghan Whigs, five by his mid-career project the Twilight Singers, one with Mark Lanegan as the Gutter Twins and one solo LP.

After working on the music at his home in Silver Lake, a hideaway in Crestline and in New Orleans, Dulli recorded the bulk of “Random Desire” at producer-engineer Christopher Thorne’s studio in Joshua Tree. Among the guests on the album are Whigs guitarist Jon Skibic, Rick G. Nelson, Mathias Schneeberger (Twilight Singers), pedal steel wizard, upright bassist and physician Dr. Stephen Patt, and drummer Jon Theodore (Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta).

Dulli has announced European tour dates in the spring.

||| Stream: “Pantomina”