Music app won't sort albums by artist

On my iPad 3rd Gen, after the 8.0 update, the "Group By Album Artist" check box in the Settings no longer works. It used to group the albums in the Music app by the associated Artist, but now it just alphabetizes them regardless of the artist.
I've tried:
1) Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
2) Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Content and Settings
3) Manually deleting all music content, resetting iPad, reimporting music to iPad
4) Each of the above, but allowing a full day between powering down and then back up.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, because I'd really rather not switch to a nonstandard app for this.

I am having the same issue as well with Linkin Park, M83, and Panic! At THe Disco. Itunes match on my Macbook shows all the albums and the artist pictures (when browsing through the artist tab). I just had my phone replaced a few days back and even after a fresh intsall of IOS 7.1.1 on this replacment model it still has the issue. I even set the device as a new device without iCloud back up and still iTunes match wont show the artist photos.

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