Bruce Springsteen's fabled "lost albums" will be released

By Chris Morgan | Last updated Apr 3, 2025 3:40 PM ET

Bruce Springsteen is certainly a musician one could call prolific. He's also one of the rare musicians who has stuck around for decades on end but has also found acclaim for some of his later albums. The dude isn't just riding the vibes of "Born to Run" all these years later. And yet, there has been murmurs of lost music, even full lost albums, from Springsteen. Fans of "The Boss" have referred to these songs collectively as "Tracks II," positing a theoretical follow-up to "Tracks," a four-disc box set Springsteen released in 1998 featuring some unreleased songs, but also a lot of b-sides, demos, and alternate versions of known tracks.

Well, it turns out the rumors were true. "Tracks II: The Lost Albums" is arriving this summer. Check out the trailer:

If you thought "Tracks" was robust, it has nothing on "Tracks II." In total there are 74 previously-unheard Springsteen songs in the mix, plus eight alternate takes of released music. The set is comprised of seven LPs, or nine CDs if you're still doing the CD thing (and admittedly some Springsteen fans might still exist within that physical-music space).

The songs are collected from efforts made between 1983 and 2018. There are soundtrack projects that were abandoned, country-adjacent albums never released, outtakes from sessions that never came to fruition, and more. One of the songs included, "Rain in the River," has been released to do some appetite whetting:

"Tracks II: The Lost Albums" will be released in June 27. With all these songs, it will be almost as lengthy as a Bruce Springsteen concert.

(h/t Pitchfork)

Chris Morgan

Chris Morgan is a Detroit-based culture writer who has somehow managed to justify getting his BA in Film Studies. He has written about sports and entertainment across various internet platforms for years and is also the author of three books about '90s television.

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