Albums not showing on iTunes but are on fully synced iPhone

Something I've noticed as I've been putting together a playlist, I have some albums which aren't showing in my iTunes. The albums were transferred from a hard drive not purchased from the iTunes Store. They are in Music>iTunes>iTunes Media>Music so the location I believe is correct but when you go into the the album title the folder there are no song files.
At first I thought perhaps they had been deleted so went to re-burn the discs but noticed something strange..the albums are on my iPhone which has only ever been synced to my Macbook and is set to sync All Music.
I'm a bit lost as to how this may have happened, if they weren't on my phone I'd assume it was a conflict of file types, perhaps the culprit albums are in .wma format but they play and show with artwork on the iPhone.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
(Macbook Pro Yosemite running iTunes 12 with iPhone 6 - all updated to current versions.)

If not the U2 album then
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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