Austin Sound

At first glance – not listen, but glance! Pay attention! – it’s hard not to imagine the Service Industry as three (or four) snotty Austin kids with shitty beards and even shittier jobs serving you a burrito. After all, the band is named the Service Industry; the album is called “Keep The Babies Warm”; the front artwork spoofs Pink Floyd’s “Animals” with Shamu dumping out (or birthing) another baby Shamu instead of a floating pig; the back artwork spoofs Pink Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother” with a cow head on a diapered baby; and the song titles sound oh-so-serious! Fortunately, imaginations are wrong (just ask John Lennon) and the Service Industry is actually a talented band and not the novelty it could have been. They just happen to be a talented band with a sense of humor.