IPhone/iTunes skipping through songs quickly

The iTunes app on my iPhone 5 is having serious issues playing a specific artist. When I pull them up to play, select songs individually or shuffle, it skips through them very quickly (40 something songs in about 6 seconds) and doesn't play any of them. It happens to be only this one particular group I am trying to listen to.
Any one else have this problem or know how to resolve it? Everything is on iCloud and can't figure out how to try and replace the songs.

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