Generationals

The Eames Era was a promising indie-pop band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with songs appearing on commercials and TV shows when it broke up in 2008. Out of the ashes of that project, Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner formed Generationals with Tess Bruneh. With a retro-'60s sound element being just a tad fashionable these days, Generationals mines some of that territory, as well. But the band uses an array of layered sounds rather than simply mimicking an entire style, and its core of bouncy, quirky pop songs are closer to the output of James and the better material of Happy Mondays. Informed by a sly sense of humor, Generationals' unexpectedly dark subject matter and subversive songwriting are deceptively more sweet than acerbic.