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Fiasco Season 5 theme song by Spatial Relations.
Credits song: "They are Falling All Around Me" by Bernice Johnson Reagon from the recording Give Your Hands to Struggle, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and TRO Essex Music Group.
Original music for this series written by Edith Mudge. Additional music by Nick Slyvester of Godmode, Joel St. Julien and and Dan English, Noah Hecht, and Joe Valle.