The music of sadie, the New York-based artist née Anna Schwab, finds common ground between the bedroom pop of early Clairo and Charli XCX ’s rare straightforward ballads . The Auto-Tuned vocals and quirky drum programming of her early releases veered towards hyperpop territory, but her music isn’t interested in ambushing the listener with that genre’s frenetic sounds and fast BPMs; instead, it creates a cozy, emotionally vulnerable environment. For her debut album, which she made after leaving a decade-long relationship, sadie reached for an acoustic guitar to create a collection of songs that subtly fleshes out her sound with analog instrumentation. Compared to peers boasting fancy Dave Fridmann mixes or recreating mainstream pop from first principles , Sadie finds her niche by embracing negative space and staying grounded. Her record feels like a bedroom variation on the moody, sparse pop of the late 2010s , incorporating the chorused guitars of recent hypnagogic pop and some early ’00s melodies.…