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The groundbreaking album, Sloe Gin Fizz, comes out on the heels of Skinnytubs’ recent work on the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed thriller, The Jacket. Music legend Brain Eno, who composed the soundtrack to the film, was so taken with Tub’s stark, haunting lament, “Quiet Inside”, that he wove the song through a number of scenes in the film, including over the end credits. The George Clooney produced film, much of which is set in a mental institution, stars Oscar-winner Adrian Brody and Keira Knightley. The Jacket’s award-winning British director, John Maybury, asked the LA-based singer/songwriter to write a song for the soundtrack after hearing an early version of Sloe Gin Fizz and Tub’s insights into the worlds and minds of psychiatric patients, subjects with which Tub’s is all too familiar. As a former music therapist working in hospitals, institutions and rehab centers, Tub’s (aka Andy Tubman) used music to communicate with individuals living at the very edges of the ...