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Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bruce Springsteen to Release 7 Never-Before-Heard Albums Totaling 83 Songs: 'I Hope You Enjoy Them'
Bruce Springsteen fans are in for a treat. On Thursday, April 3, the "Hungry Heart" hitmaker announced the release of Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a collection of seven never-before-heard albums featuring music recorded between 1983 and 2018. According to a press release, The Lost Albums "fill in rich chapters of Springsteen's expansive career timeline — while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist." Related: Bruce Springsteen Pays Tribute to Late Friend Joe DePugh, Pitcher Who Inspired Hit 'Glory Days' After Chance 1973 Run-In ''The Lost Albums' were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,' said Springsteen in a statement. 'I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them.' Per a press release, the "lo-fi exploration of the lost album LA Garage Sessions '83 is "a crucial link" between 1982's Nebraska and 1984's Born in the U.S.A. and echoes the drum loop and synth sounds on Streets of Philadelphia Sessions. 'The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions,' Springsteen said of his work. Also featured in the collection is a film soundtrack for a movie that was never made, called Faithless; an LP called Inyo, which is full of "richly-woven border tales;" and an "orchestra-driven, mid-century noir" project titled Twilight Hours. Springsteen also shared a first look at the 83-song collection with the track 'Rain In The River,' which comes from the lost album Perfect World and captures the project's "arena-ready E Street flavor." "Last night, I put on my jacket and I went for a ride / Smelled sweet mustard fields, and my Colt at my side / Like rain in the river / Rain in the river," he sings on the track. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Related: Bruce Springsteen Pays Tribute to Late Friend Joe DePugh, Pitcher Who Inspired Hit 'Glory Days' After Chance 1973 Run-In "The Boss" released his last studio album in 2022 with Only the Strong Survive, featuring covers of classics from the Four Tops, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Temptations, Jimmy Ruffin and more. Additionally, the late soul icon and Springsteen collaborator Sam Moore, sang on two of the tracks. Tracks II: The Lost Albums is due June 27 via Sony Music. Read the original article on People
Daily Tribune
05-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Tribune
New Bruce Springsteen music set for June 27 release
Bruce Springsteen announced Thursday he will release a boxed set of new music this summer spanning 83 songs. 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' is slated to drop June 27, seven complete albums recorded between 1983 and 2018, The Boss said. ''The Lost Albums' were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,' said Springsteen in a statement on his website. 'I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them.' The 75-year-old released a preview in the form of the track 'Rain In The River,' an electrified arena-rock anthem. In a video clip accompanying the announcement, he said he took advantage of the pandemic to finish 'everything I had in my vault.' Springsteen last released a studio album in 2022, a collection of covers of classics by the likes of the Four Tops and the Supremes entitled 'Only the Strong Survive.'
CBS News
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Bruce Springsteen releasing "Lost Albums" featuring dozens of songs never heard before
A new Bruce Springsteen album coming out this summer will include dozens of "never-before-heard" songs from previously-unreleased records. "Tracks II: The Lost Albums" features seven full-length albums that were never released from 1983-2018, a post Thursday on Springsteen's social media says. Springsteen's new album will feature 82 unreleased tracks, including 74 songs that have never been heard before, according to the New Jersey-native's website . "'The Lost Albums' were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released," Springsteen said. "I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them." He also spoke about the album in a trailer on YouTube. "I often read about myself in the 90s as having some 'lost' period or something. And really, I was working the whole time," he said. "During the pandemic, what I did for that period of time was I finished everything I had in my vault." "Tracks II: The Lost Albums" will be released on June 27 via Sony Music, according to the announcement.
Associated Press
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Bruce Springsteen to release 7 albums of unreleased songs, ‘Track ll: The Lost Albums'
Bruce Springsteen knows what Bruce Springsteen fans want. And that's more Bruce Springsteen. The Boss will release seven new studio albums, titled 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums,' on June 27. It will contain material written and re-recorded between 1983 and 2018. The news arrived Thursday morning via Instagram. The 83-song collection is mostly previously unreleased tracks, 74 of them never-before-heard songs, in a box set that includes a 100-page hardcover book. In a short video clip posted to the social media platform, Springsteen explains that during the COVID-19 pandemic, he began completing 'everything I had in my vault,' he says. 'The Lost Albums are records that were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released.' Springsteen first teased the records on Wednesday morning. A short video posted to his Instagram account revealed that something called 'The Lost Albums' was forthcoming, along with Thursday's date, April 3, 2025. The clip also featured text that read 'What was lost has been found.' The caption urged his followers to head to It led to a subscription webpage and featured the dates '1983-2018.' 'Tracks ll' follows his first 'Tracks' volume. Released in 1998, it was a 4-CD, 66-song collection of unreleased material. Springsteen released his last studio album, 'Only the Strong Survive,' in 2022. It was a collection of covers, the Boss taking on classics from the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and others. The late soul legend Sam Moore, a frequent Springsteen collaborator, sang on two of the cuts. 'I wanted to make an album where I just sang,' Springsteen said in a statement at the time. 'And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies?' Next month, Springsteen and the E Street band will embark on a tour of Europe and the U.K., beginning May 17 at Co-op Live in Manchester, England, and concluding on July 3 in Milan, Italy, at the San Siro Stadium.
New York Times
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Bruce Springsteen Will Release Seven ‘Lost Albums' in June
Bruce Springsteen is opening his vault — and unleashing seven 'lost' LPs. On June 27, Springsteen will release 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums,' a collection of 83 songs on seven CDs (or nine vinyl LPs), of which 74 have never been officially released in any form, according to an announcement from the star on Thursday. Fans have long known that Springsteen has withheld many songs throughout his career. Over the years the singer-songwriter has made stray comments about shelved or unfinished recordings, sometimes seeming to itch to get them completed and released. But even many Bruceologists may be surprised at the scale of 'Tracks II,' which is organized as seven discrete projects from 1983 to 2018, each with its own production and stylistic approach. Among them are working tapes from Springsteen's fruitful pre-'Born in the U.S.A.' period and a hip-hop-influenced album from the early 1990s. ''The Lost Albums' were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,' Springsteen, 75, said in a statement. 'LA Garage Sessions '83' has 18 songs from the period when Springsteen was developing 'Born in the U.S.A.,' his monster 1984 hit, a moment of transition from the raw solo demos that were released as 'Nebraska' (1982). Many of those titles, like 'Fugitive's Dream' and 'Don't Back Down on Our Love,' have long circulated among fans as bootlegs, but are getting their first official release on 'Tracks II.' 'Streets of Philadelphia Sessions' peels back the curtain on another phase of Springsteen's career. After using synthesizers and a drum machine to record 'Streets of Philadelphia,' a solo song for Jonathan Demme's 1993 film 'Philadelphia' — which went on to win best original song at the Academy Awards — Springsteen continued to experiment with the format, and word filtered out about a dark LP with a 'hip-hop edge.' But even after fully preparing it for release, Springsteen opted to hold the album back. In 'Born to Run,' his 2016 memoir, Springsteen said he decided that the lyrics on the album, about troubled relationships, were not fully realized, and that he had grown concerned about 'a faint disconnect with my audience' from previous albums, like 'Tunnel of Love,' from 1987, that had explored similar themes. 'I had to come to terms with the fact that after my year of work, writing, recording, mixing,' he added, 'it was going on the shelf. That's where she sits.' Now that 10-track LP is finally coming out. The other album collections in 'Tracks II' include 'Faithless,' from a film project that was never made; the country-inflected 'Somewhere North of Nashville'; 'Inyo,' with songs like 'Ciudad Juarez' and 'The Aztec Dance' that hint at Mexican culture and America's southern border; and 'Twilight Hours,' a rare example of orchestrated, traditional-pop Springsteen. He describes the last album, 'Perfect World,' as 'the one thing on this that wasn't initially conceived as an album,' but rather 'something I put together.' The first 'Tracks' collection, in 1998, was chocked with more B-sides, outtakes and recordings, among them the Springsteen's stark solo original demo of the song 'Born in the U.S.A.'
