Will Johnson delivers his first solo album in 8 years with Scorpion. He's been busy over the last few years, releasing albums and touring with his band Centro-matic, collaborating with touring with friends in several different bands; Monsters of Folk (with Jim James, M Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis) New Multitudes (with Jay Farrar, Jim James, Anders Parker), and Overseas (with David Bazan, Matt and Bubba Kadane). He also launched a celebrated art career with paintings of classic baseball players.Scorpion was recorded at the Echo Lab near Denton, TX with Will's long-time Centro-matic band-mate and collaborator Matt Pence. The album features contributions from Scott Danbom (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Sarah Jaffe), Howard Draper (Tre Orsi), and Mikey Kapinus (Magnolia Electric Company).Johnson says of the recording sessions, I constructed most of the songs there on the studio premises. I'd wake up and start writing or working with a set of lyrics, and Pence would show up a couple hours later. Many of the songs were written, recorded and mixed in the course of twelve hours or so. I wanted the session to have an in-the-moment, first instinct kind of feel to it. I also wanted to work with some of the instrumental pieces and more percussive approaches, so Matt and I made sure to focus on some of those elements as we went.