I think calling an artist's latest album nothing more than "just a playlist they put together with some artwork" is doing a disservice to the amount of work tha

I think calling an artist's latest album nothing more than "just a playlist they put together with some artwork" is doing a disservice to the amount of work that goes into consciously composing and crafting an album, at least for many artists and genres of music. The same could be said for the skill that goes into making a good playlist, sure, but in general there's still a difference between someone curating existing music and someone writing new songs from scratch and figuring out how to arrange them.