Cut The Kids in Half

BIOGRAPHY

“We are creatures that hallucinate a higher calling,” says Jack Silver, frontman of Cut The Kids In Half. “We construct the world in our image: seeing signals in the naked sky, hearing voices in our failing organs. The rivers have mouths, and the mountains have spines.”

Animals on Angel Dust is the newest album from Boston-based rock band Cut The Kids In Half, and their first project as a full band. Across eleven songs and over an hour of music, this kaleidoscopic record ultimately asks a single question: What does it mean to have a self?

The sprawling opener “What We Look For Is Gone” announces that this album will have no easy answers. This is a world where heaven’s in a stomach, where there are particle deniers and nuclear saloons. The music draws from nearly every decade of rock history, paired with lyrics that are simultaneously bold, poetic, sardonic, and heart-wrenching.

Tracks like “Drinking the Dawn” and “Footsteps” ground the album in the trials and triumphs of daily life, while “Black Rain Blues” and “Arms Et Cetera” invite the listener into their surreal and otherworldly realms. Though the record revels in experimentation, it still delivers punchy anthems like “Wild Rabbit” and “Thrown to the Dogs”.

Meticulously crafted yet wildly ambitious, these eleven songs capture a rare spark— an album that is both timeless and deeply relevant. Over two years in the making, Animals on Angel Dust proves that Cut The Kids In Half is one of Boston’s most compelling new bands.