
With a name like Marques Toliver , you are probably not destined for a career in middle management. Instead, apparently, you are destined to forge a career crafting Andrew Bird-meets-Beyonce-meets TV On The Radio pop. Toliver's songs are full of vocal histrionics and moving-on-up motivational lyrics, of the sort you might expect to find on a Destiny's Child record. A strange match, perhaps, for the instrumentation, which is all kitchen sink drums and Toliver's trademark violin. This is, basically, 'Independent Women Part 12 played on strings and sung by a man. And it [...]