Trouble looping bi-directional images data in Pods CMS

Hi there!

I’m building a record label website and I’m stuck in a loop error. Hopefully someone can help me out with this. I am losing my mind.

In a pod (“artists”) I want to pull all one artist’s albums from another pod (“releases”) through the bi-directional field (“releases_conn”).
Everything works out fine except the images (“releases_img”) shows up in the wrong order in the for loop.

Code:

if (is_array($release_conn)) {
echo '<h3>Releases</h3>';
echo '<ul>';
for ($i=0; $i<count($release_conn); $i++)
{
    $rl = $release_conn[$i];
    // Check if compilation (various artists)
    if ($rl['compilation'] == 1) { $release_title = $rl['name']." (Various Artists)"; } else { $release_title = $rl['name']; }

    $thumb = $artists->get_field('release_conn.releases_img');
    $thumb = $thumb[$i];
    // Get thumbnail image size
    $size = 'thumbnail';
    if(!empty($thumb)) {
    $attachment_id = $thumb['ID'];
    $sized = image_downsize($attachment_id,$size);

    echo '<li>';
    if(is_array($sized)) {
    echo '<a href="releases/'.$rl[slug].'/"><img src="'.$sized[0].'" alt="'.$release_title.'"></a><br />'; }
    }
    echo '<p><a title="'.$release_title.'" href="releases/'.$rl[slug].'/">'.$release_title.'</a><br />'.$rl['releases_format'].' ('.date("Y", strtotime($rl['releases_releasedate'])).')</p></li>';

}
echo '</ul>';
}

The images shows up in a different order than the other info. I guess it’s not correct to pull this inside the for loop as :

$thumb = $artists->get_field('release_conn.releases_img');
$thumb = $thumb[$i];

But I don’t know what else to do.
I need to connect the image files [guid] to the correct pod item (ID).
Please help!

Thanks!

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