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Fiasco Season 5 theme song by Spatial Relations.
Credits song: Blood in My Veins by Elke Downer.
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.