On Monday evening, Clairo graced the stage of the Grand Ole Opry for the first time, bringing her audience along on a retro whirlwind of flirty, silky tracks.

Fair Mable of Wallington Hall, from the recent Pressure and Persuasion EP, is another that reaches out with tenebrous fingers, a Nosferatu clutch drifting across a wall. Her voice is manipulated, ...