[fshee]

Superficial. You prefer no braces, no underscores, and no colon. Typing is cheap. I don't mind 'em. Your second example has more implied than syntactical gripes.

    albums = append(albums, newAlbum)

implies immutability. I like that. The latter does not. I don't like that. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[stolen_biscuit]

Correct, they were asked their opinion about why they think it's ugly, they gave it

[fshee]

True. I seemed to have missed that and came off a tad rude doing so. Part of my opinion is now in the mix. :-)

[deepsun]

> implies immutability.

Except that implication is incorrect -- slices are mutable.