Do you think that context about what happened behind a album's creation adds to a album and makes it more enjoyable or a album should be judge on it's musical merits alone?
Musical merits to objectively rate. Outside context to subjectively enjoy more.
your contextualization of the context of the recording, your contextualization of the context of your listening, and your contextualization of the context that preceded both, and your contextualization of the context that contextualizes all contexts = the music in a vacuum
I think so. For example, Marilyn Manson's Holy Wood being produced as a response to columbine and the criticism Manson received. The album ends up becoming a full on attack of American society and politics at the time. I find I enjoy the album much more when considering this historical context