The Sky Above the Mud Below is an album by New Zealand band Tall Dwarfs released in 2002.

It includes an International Tall Dwarfs EP called The Weidenhaüsen Impediment ("FREE!!!

Friends of the band recorded sounds for this EP, which were then turned into songs by Bathgate and Knox (similar to the way Stumpy had come about).

The cover painting by Chris Knox depicts Mrs Nancy Pomeroy in her kitchen/dining room in Invercargill.

The picture makes prominent lower middle class decoration typical of Invercargill in the 1960s.