Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to subscribers on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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bloodsports - “Ten Thousand Feet”

What happens to time when the body falls apart? Does pain make time speed up or slow down? Are we suspended outside of it, or moving miles beyond the present moment? In May 1939, Major League Baseball player Joe Sprinz attempted to break the world record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height. He was one of three players to successfully catch a ball dropped from 437 feet, the equivalent of a 43-story building. A few months later, he attempted to double that height, trying to catch a ball dropped 800 feet from a blimp.…