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Bruce Springsteen announces “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” with 83 unpublished songs – including a new single “Rain in the River”
Bruce Springsteen released seven previously unpublished studio albums on June 27, 2025 with “Tracks II: The Lost Albums”. A total of 83 unmistaked songs from 1983 to 2018. With “Rain in the River” there is a first new song.
Insight into the lost albums – the boss tells
In the official trailer for the box, Springsteen speaks about the history of the so -called “Lost Albums”. The collection appears as a limited 9-LP box and as a 7-CD set and is also available digitally. At the same time, there is the selection LP “Lost and Found: Selections From The Lost Albums” with 20 tracks, available as a double LP and single CD.
7 studio albums, 83 songs – 35 years of music history
“Tracks II: The Lost Albums” shows Bruce Springsteen’s artistic development, starting with the LO-FI recordings of the “La Garage Sessions ’83”, which are located in terms of stylistics between “Nebraska” and “Born in the USA”, right up to the synthligent sound landscapes of the “Streets of Philadelphia Sessions”.
Springsteen statement:
“All these LPs are fully developed albums – some almost finished – which have never been released. Over the years I have repeatedly listened to them or played friends. Now the time has come to share them with you. I hope you like them.”
“Faithless” contains songs for a film that was never shot. “Somewhere North of Nashville” offers country arrangements with pedal Steel. “Inyo” travels to Grenzland stories. “Twilight Hours” offers orchestral sounds in the style of classic film noirs from the 1950s.
Limited collector edition
The box will be released on June 27th and contains:
- 9 LPS or 7 CDs with exclusive covers
- A fabric -bound booklet with archive photos
- Liner Notes of music journalist Erik Flannigan
- A foreword by Bruce Springsteen
Album overview: Overview of the seven lost works
1. La garage sessions ’83
Tracks, among other things: Follow that Dream, Johnny bye bye, Don’t Back Down, County Fair, The Klansman, Shut Out the Light
2. Streets of Philadelphia sessions
Contains, among other things,: blind spot, something in the Well, Secret Garden, The Farewell Party
3. Faithless
With instrumental passages & spiritual songs like Where You Goin ‘, God Sent You, My Master’s hand
4. Somewhere North of Nashville
Country flair with songs like Repo Man, Silver Mountain, Stand On It, Blue Highway
5. Inyo
Border experience and Mexico influences: Inyo, Indian Town, El Jardinero, Ciudad Juarez
6. Twilight Hours
Film music sound with: Sunday Love, September Kisses, Twilight Hours, Dinner at Eight
7. Perfect World
Powerful rock tracks like: I’m not sleeping, The Great Depression, Rain in the River, Cutting Knife