iOS 18.4 - noticeable lag when browsing Various Artists

Just noticed this following a complete restore of my iPhone 14 Pro Max and rebuilding a (rather large) music library.

When selecting "Various Artists" from under the top Artists menu, there is a noticeable lag (about 5 seconds) between making the selection and the corresponding album covers appearing.

There is also a slight lag when scrolling through the resulting albums, no more than a second or two (at most) but not nearly noticeable as with accessing Various Artists.

It doesn't matter if the albums were downloaded or manually transferred, the access lag still persists. I've removed the downloaded albums (and left the transferred ones in place) - perhaps some corrupted file - but the access lag still remains. I may have to attempt removing the transferred ones and replace.

This is most noticeable with "Various Artists". I have artists containing about the equivalent number of albums under their "Artists" entry which also have a slight lag (Music has any videos entries immediately upon accessing before loading the list of albums) - but not nearly as bad as "Various Artists" entries.

Anyone else experiencing this?