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 1′ played on strings and sung by a man. And it is exactly as good as that sounds.
Toliver’s debut EP, Butterflies Are Not Free, is out an 25 April on Bella Union. ‘Deep In My Heart’, the lead track from that record, is today’s Song Of The Day.
Marques Toliver – Deep In My Heart
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