Tracks II: The Lost Albums

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TRACKS II: THE LOST ALBUMS are seven unreleased recordings by Bruce Springsteen made between 1983 and 2018. With 82 unreleased songs, the Lost Albums complete chapters of Springsteen’s vast career, while offering an invaluable glimpse into his life and work as an artist. “The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even mixed before being shelved,” Springsteen said. “I’ve been playing this music to myself and often to close friends for years. I’m glad you finally get the chance to hear them. I hope you enjoy them.” From the lo-fi exploration of LA Garage Sessions ’83, which form a crucial link between Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A., to the drum loops and synthesizer sounds of the Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, the Lost Albums offer unprecedented context for 35 prolific years of Springsteen’s home writing and recording. “The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go in a wide variety of different musical directions,” Springsteen explains. Throughout the album, this sonic experimentation takes the form of a film soundtrack (for a film that was never made) on Faithless, country combos with pedal steel on Somewhere North of Nashville, richly woven border tales on Inyo, a mid-century noir driven by an orchestra on Twilight Hours, and E Street-flavored rock on Perfect World. The lost albums are available in a limited edition of nine LPs and seven CDs, including original packaging for each unreleased record, with a 100-page clothbound book featuring rare archival photos, notes by essayist Erik Flannigan on each lost album, and a personal introduction from Springsteen himself to the project.