Bruce Springsteen has announced he’ll release seven new studio albums of previously unreleased songs this June.
The 75-year-old had teased an announcement for Thursday on social media but fans couldn’t have guessed there’d be ”74 never-before-heard” tracks to come.
The music legend revealed in a new trailer that the idea came during the pandemic, as he sifted through his archives and realised how much content he was sitting on.
Watch the clip above.
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“I often read about myself in the 90s as having some lost period or something. Really, I was working the whole time,” Springsteen, also known as The Boss, said in the clip.
“During the pandemic, what I did for that period of time was I finished everything I had in my vault.
“So this is Tracks II: The Lost Albums. [They] are records that were full records – some even to the point of being mixed and not released. For one reason or another, something I felt was missing from some of them, or they just didn’t feel complete at the time.
“Over a period of time, I built up a small collection of full albums that, for one reason or another, never got put out.”
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The albums were written and recorded by Springsteen between 1983 and 2018, featuring 82 previously-unreleased tracks.
“I’ve played this music to myself and often close friends for years now,” he said in a statement.
“I’m glad you’ll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them.”
On Thursday, Springsteen released the first single Rain In The River, which comes from the lost album Perfect World, which he says “encapsulates that project’s arena-ready E Street flavour”.
The musician, who has 20 Grammys to his name, formed the E Street Band in New Jersey in 1972.
Springsteen’s other lost albums will include: LA Garage Sessions ’83, Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North Of Nashville, Inyo and Twilight Hours.
The singer’s last studio album, Only the Strong Survive, was released in 2022 and was his 21st studio album across his 52-year career.
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The album was a collection of covers – the Boss’s take on soul and R&B classics from the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and others.
Tracks ll follows his first Tracks volume, which was released in 1998. That was a four-CD, 66-song collection of unreleased material.
The Lost Albums will be available from June 27 as a limited-edition nine vinyl set, seven-CD set or on digital formats.
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It’s set to include distinctive packaging for each previously-unreleased record, with a 100-page cloth-bound hardcover book featuring rare archival photos, liner notes on each lost album from essayist Erik Flannigan and a personal introduction on the project from Springsteen himself.
A companion set, Lost And Found: Selections from The Lost Albums, will feature 20 highlights from across the collection.
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