alltherowboats

Hmmm, this is indeed incredibly difficult to ultimately say...

If I am specifically aiming to satisfy a particular mood/feeling at my time of listening, I would obviously much prefer the album created by artist 2 because of the consistency being offered.

But more often than not, I'm in a much more lax frame of mind, so I'll welcome any and all experimentation throughout an album, so long as it's done well from song to song with proper effort being awarded each time (artist 1).

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As for if the release was the band's only one, I wouldn't think of the situation any more or any less in either case...
A good album is a good album, afterall

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