Well I obviously dreamt it varying with sort criteria
In Isengard whenever I list albums, just like you say, I get the artist name on the right hand side. But there is still something odd with Jarvis...
To be expected while it is being developed I know, but I can't see why it is doing what it is. Sometimes I get the artist names on the right, but sometimes I don't. In particular if I list albums from the main screen then the artist names are missing. But If I go through the hierarchy Music>Library>Artists and select to see the albums for an artist then the atist names are shown on the right hand side of the list.
Maybe it is just the build I am looking at (commit 40441fb44c2dcd73cd7e81c7f77aa4fb2f74e0a8), I thought for a while it was a change I had made, but reverted to my repo master and artist name is sometimes missing from the right hand side of the albums list.
May return on a later build, but I would like to know what is happening.
[Edit: well it turns out that the Music>Albums display is cached. I had run my own faulty version of Jarvis, then running the official Jarvis I was still seeing a cached broken view. Learned something new today, and the story is here in case it helps someone in the furure.]