Bruce Springsteen Teasing Release Of ‘Lost Albums’

Last year, the Bruce Springsteen camp said that 2025 would bring “a look back at” his “storied recording career, featuring never-before-heard material,” That tease is now bearing fruit, as the Boss is touting the release tomorrow (April 3) of details pertaining to a long-awaited rarities collection thought to be titled Tracks II — The Lost Albums (1983-2018).

Social media posts over the past 24 hours, one of which contains a snippet of unreleased music, include the phrase “What Was Lost Has Now Been Found.” The 1983 start date would appear to exclude the fabled “electric” version of the 1982 album Nebraska, but fans will apparently have to wait until tomorrow to find out for sure.

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After delving into his legendary vault for the first time with the original, 66-song Tracks in 1998, Springsteen began giving specific albums the dedicated rarities-packed boxed set treatment in 2010 with The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story. That was followed in 2015 by The Ties That Bind: The River Collection.

“There’s a lot of really good music left,” the artist told Rolling Stone in 2020. “You just go back there. It’s not that hard. If I pull out something from 1980, or 1985 or 1970, it’s amazing how you can slip into that voice. It’s just sort of headspace. All of those voices remain available to me, if I want to go to them.”

“I have a box set of five unreleased albums that are basically post-1988,” Springsteen elaborated in a separate interview with the publication two years later. “People look at my work in the ’90s, and they go, ‘the ’90s wasn’t a great decade for Bruce. He was kind of doing this, and he wasn’t in the E Street Band.’ I actually made a lot of music during that period of time. I actually made albums. For one reason or another, the timing wasn’t right or whatever, I didn’t put them out.”

Beyond a 16-show European tour this summer with the E Street Band, Springsteen remains closely involved with the biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, in which he will be portrayed by The Bear star Jeremy Allen White. The movie chronicles the making of Nebraska and portions of it have been filmed on location at the Jersey Shore.

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