Can't play any albums in iTunes 11

Since updating to iTunes 11, I can no longer select an album and play the entire album. And all the songs listed on albums are grayed out, unless they have been used in a recent playlist.

Timerift wrote:
When I try to play a song though it just starts skipping to the next song and then the next one.  Unless there was a song local on the machine it just keeps skipping to the next and to the next.
I think this may be a clue to the problem. When you purchased the MBA did you restore any of your personal data from a prior backup? In particular, did you restore any prior data in the Music folder?
Or, did you simply launch iTunes and enable iTunes Match?

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