The Sky Above the Mud Below is an album by New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 band Tall Dwarfs

Tall Dwarfs

Tall Dwarfs are a New Zealand rock band formed in 1981 by Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate who, through their do-it-yourself ethic, helped pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music. The duo formed out of the ashes of Toy Love....

 released in 2002. It includes an International Tall Dwarfs EP called The Weidenhaüsen Impediment ("FREE!!!"), but it remains unclear whether this was also released separately. Friends recorded sounds for this EP, which were then turned into songs by Bathgate and Knox (similar to the way Stumpy

Stumpy (album)

Stumpy is an album by New Zealand band Tall Dwarfs released in 1996. The album is officially credited to the "International Tall Dwarfs", because sounds on cassette by 16 home tapers from around the globe were used to create the music...

had come about). The Sky Above the Mud Below (not The Sky Above, the Mud Below as Allmusic spells it) is the most recent album released by the Tall Dwarfs.

Track listing

• The Sky Above the Mud Below

1. "Meet the Beatle"
2. "Beached Boy"
3. "Deodorant"
4. "Michael Hillbilly"
5. "Room to Breathe"
6. "Right at Home"
7. "Time to Wait"
8. "Melancholy"
9. "We are the Chosen Few"
10. "Baby it's Over"
11. "Cascade"
12. "The Beautiful Invader"
13. "Big Brain of the World"
14. "You Want me Shimmy"
15. "How the West was Won"
16. "OK Forever"
17. "Your Unmade Eye"

• The Weidenhaüsen Impediment

1. "Seduced by Rock n Roll"
2. "Amniotic Love"
3. "Carsick"
4. "Wax"
5. "Open Wide your Pretty Mouths"
6. "Possum Born"
7. "Over the Waves"
8. "The Runout Groove"