On the homepage which shows all of the albums, if I click on an album and there is only 1 subalbum, is there a better way to make it automatically go to the subalbum automatically?

I am currently doing this via jQuery, but was curious if there's a good way to do it through code? I'm assuming it's not that hard but I wasn't feeling like going through the source code lol This method does work but there is an obvious redirect after the page loads, which isn't super ideal.

jQuery( document ).ready(function() {
  if( jQuery('#theCategoryPage .thumbnailCategories .album').length ==1){
    window.location.replace( jQuery('#theCategoryPage .thumbnailCategories .album a').attr('href') );
  }
});