TRACKS II: THE LOST ALBUMS are seven unreleased Bruce Springsteen recordings made between 1983 and 2018.
With 82 previously unreleased songs, The Lost Albums fill in chapters of Springsteen’s vast career while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist. “The Lost Albums were complete records, some of them even mixed before being released,” Springsteen said. “For years I've been playing this music to myself and often to close friends. I'm happy that you finally have the opportunity to listen to them. I hope you enjoy them.”
From the lo-fi exploration of the LA Garage Sessions '83, which provide 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 to 35 prolific years of Springsteen's home songwriting 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 score (for a movie that was never made) on Faithless, country combos with pedal steel on Somewhere North of Nashville, richly woven frontier narratives on Inyo, mid-century noir driven by an orchestra on Twilight Hours, and E Street-favored rock on Perfect World.
The Lost Albums are available as a limited edition nine-LP and seven-CD set, including original packaging for each unreleased disc, with a 100-page cloth-bound book featuring rare archival photos, essayist Erik Flannigan’s notes on each Lost Album, and a personal introduction from Springsteen himself on the project.