Zach Bryan’s got another one. The prolific country-rock megastar puts out a whole lot of music. His most recent album The Great American Bar Scene is just a few months old, and he recently teased another new song while announcing to the world that he’d broken up with his girlfriend. Bryan loves posting videos of himself playing early acoustic versions of his songs online, then releasing those songs later. Today, he’s done it again — not with the song that he just teased, but with one that he debuted in an acoustic snippet a few months ago. That song is called “This World’s A Giant,” and he released it as a single today.

Back in July, Bryan posted a video of himself playing “This World’s A Giant” outside somewhere. Today, the song gets a proper single release, and it’s his first proper new release since that album came out. Heaven Scmidtt, leader of the New York indie band Grumpy, sings backup harmonies. “This World’s A Giant” is a luminous, reflective number about being overwhelmed by the outside world. Bryan wrote and produced the track himself, as he usually does, and it’s got vaguely jazz-inspired horns floating through the mix. More than most Bryan songs, I think this one reflects the influence of Bon Iver, a huge Bryan fave and past collaborator. Below, check out the song and the early acoustic preview.

@zachbryanarchive Zach Bryan – This Worlds a Giant [Unreleased] #ZachBryan original sound – Zach Bryan Archive

Zach Bryan is in the news these days for other reasons, as well. A few weeks ago, he announced that he and his girlfriend Brianna LaPaglia, better known as Barstool Sports podcaster Brianna Chickenfry, had broken up. For her part, LaPaglia said that she was blindsided by Bryan’s announcement, and she understandably seemed pretty upset about it.

In response, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is going after Bryan. Portnoy and LaPaglia’s podcast co-host Josh Richards apparently released a Zach Bryan diss track called “Smallest Man.” Now, as Barstool reports, Portnoy claims that Bryan’s label Warner Music Nashville issued a DMCA complaint and had the song removed from YouTube and Spotify at Bryan’s request.

In a recent TikTok video, Dave Portnoy says that Zach Bryan is trying to get “Smallest Man” shut down and that he’s figured out which part of the track allegedly violates copyright. So now he says he’s giving the song a big re-release this week, and he wants to get the song charting and to beat Bryan at his own game. Hopefully, these gentleman can keep it on wax. Nobody needs another King Von situation.

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“This World’s A Giant” is out now on Belting Bronco/Warner.