There’s the kind of love that gets Nicholas Sparks’s movie treatments, and there’s the love that is so intensely scary it might as well be in a horror movie. Whether it’s DIANA singing about her growing desire in “Under Your Spell” or PJ Harvey’s chilling refusal to accept a breakup in “Rid of Me,” all eight of these tracks prove that certain shades of love can be creepily consuming.

Illustration by Minna.

Illustration by Minna.