Thanks for the response. I do have my library set to prefer local meta tags, and I do have it set up as described. I have to do this because I have a number of albums that aren’t in MusicBrainz and probably won’t be in the future (random ethnic music, old LPs etc).
I can try adding AlbumArtist - for most of my library this hasn’t been necessary but will see if it makes a difference here.
On this one: “Contributing is also that the prefix “La” is an article and therefore tends to get removed by string-matching algorithms.” - I think that might be the trick - but do you know why fuzzy matching is happening on artist name, and especially when can’t you force it to not fuzzy match?
[Edit] I added AlbumArtist and did the Plex dance. It didn’t make a difference, Plex still thinks these are the same artist.