More than a quarter century after releasing his first major vault project, Bruce Springsteen is back with a sequel that's even bigger.

True to its name, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 promises not just a wealth of unreleased recordings from the Thrill Hill vaults, as 1998's Tracks offered. This time, the rock icon presents seven full albums' worth of material, sharing thematic and recording cohesion and even, in some cases, seriously considered for release at one time or another. (Though all imagery has yet to be revealed, each set will be packaged as its own album.) The 7CD or 9LP set will be released June 27; each version features a 100-page clothbound hardcover book offering notes on the albums by writer Erik Flannigan, an introduction penned by Springsteen and scores of archival photos. A single CD or double LP, Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums will be available on the same date.

Though every recording on Tracks II is previously unreleased, hardcore fans will have heard some of these tracks before. The set's opening disc, L.A. Garage Sessions '83 - a thematic and sonic link between the spare acoustic demos of 1982's Nebraska and 1984's rock blockbuster Born in the U.S.A. - features songs that were later reworked as B-sides to various Born in the U.S.A. singles, including "Johnny Bye Bye" and "Shut Out the Light." (One, "My Hometown," even made that album proper, serving as the closing track and seventh and final Top 10 hit from the LP.) The next album, Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, draws back to the song of the same name (not included here), the Oscar-winning single from the moving Tom Hanks-Denzel Washington drama Philadelphia (1993). These tracks continue the sonic threads of that song, featuring Springsteen manipulating synths and percussion loops to create a much different atmosphere than his work with The E Street Band or even the group of musicians assembled for 1992's Human Touch and Lucky Town albums. ("Secret Garden," a ballad later included on The Boss' 1995 greatest-hits package, makes an early appearance here.)

"I often read about myself in the 1990s as having some 'lost period,'" Springsteen discusses in the Tracks II trailer released today. "Not really. I was working the whole time." Indeed, while the three albums of that decade - Human Touch, Lucky Town and 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad - might feel like Springsteen was comparatively resting on his laurels after a breakneck two decades, Tracks II reveals even more roads not taken from that era. Somewhere North of Nashville, one of the set's albums, dates back to that same mid-'90s period, and offers more versions of Born in the U.S.A. B-sides ("Janey, Don't You Lose Heart," "Stand on It") and even a title track reworked for the underrated country-rock venture Western Stars (2018). Inyo, one of the most intriguing inclusions, was recorded not long afterward during solo acoustic touring for The Ghost of Tom Joad; from its track titles, it seems to have a running lyrical theme of stories in and around the Southwest, from Mexico to the California/Nevada border (where Inyo County is located).

Springsteen kept experimenting with sounds in the 2000s even after often returning to his typical heart-on-sleeve rock sound in the 21st century (even reuniting The E Street Band at the turn of the millennium). The mid-'00s Faithless is described as the soundtrack to an unmade film; three of its 11 songs are instrumentals. Perfect World, the closing album of Tracks II, is a more straightforward rocker, featuring several songs that were co-written with longtime friend Joe Grushecky, bandleader of Pittsburgh's Iron City Houserockers. (The closing title track was cut by another pal of Springsteen's, John Mellencamp, on 2023's Orpheus Descending.) The set also offers Twilight Hours, a companion piece from the sessions that produced Western Stars, retaining that album's blend of country and string-augmented pop/rock. (The album features an alternate version of one of the more unusual songs from Bruce's vault: he initially cut "I'll Stand by You" after reading the Harry Potter books, allegedly offering the song to the producers of the film series; it later played over the closing credit to Blinded by the Light, the 2019 drama based on writer Sarfraz Manzoor's memoir of growing up with Springsteen's music as a Pakistani-born Brit at the height of Thatcherism in the mid-'80s.

Tracks II is out June 27 and can be pre-ordered below alongside the Lost and Found compilation. (A note to our readers: we cannot and will not attempt to explain the eye-watering price of the big sets.) Check out those pre-order links and track lists below. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)

Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 (Columbia/Legacy, 2025)

7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums (Columbia/Legacy, 2025)

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

All versions of tracks previously unreleased. + included on Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums

CD 1/LP 1-2: L.A. Garage Sessions '83

1. Follow That Dream +
2. Don't Back Down on Our Love
3. Little Girl Like You
4. Johnny Bye Bye
5. Sugarland
6. Seven Tears +
7. Fugitive's Dream
8. Black Mountain Ballad
9. Jim Deer
10. County Fair
11. My Hometown
12. One Love
13. Don't Back Down
14. Richfield Whistle
15. The Klansman
16. Unsatisfied Heart +
17. Shut Out the Light
18. Fugitive's Dream (Ballad)

Version of Track 4 released on "I'm on Fire" single - Columbia, 1985
Version of Track 10 released on The Essential Bruce Springsteen (Limited Edition) - Columbia, 2003
Version of Track 11 released on Born in the U.S.A. - Columbia, 1984
Version of Track 17 released on "Born in the U.S.A." single - Columbia, 1984

CD 2/LP 3: Streets of Philadelphia Sessions

1. Blind Spot +
2. Maybe I Don't Know You
3. Something in the Well +
4. Waiting on the End of the World +
5. The Little Things
6. We Fell Down
7. One Beautiful Morning
8. Between Heaven and Earth
9. Secret Garden
10. The Farewell Party

Version of Track 9 released on Greatest Hits - Columbia, 1995

CD 3/LP 4: Faithless

1. The Desert (Instrumental)
2. Where You Goin', Where You From
3. Faithless +
4. All God's Children
5. A Prayer by the River (Instrumental)
6. God Sent You +
7. Goin' to California
8. The Western Sea (Instrumental)
9. My Master's Hand
10. Let Me Ride
11. My Master's Hand (Theme)

CD 4/LP 5: Somewhere North of Nashville

1. Repo Man +
2. Tiger Rose
3. Poor Side of Town
4. Delivery Man
5. Under a Big Sky
6. Detail Man +
7. Silver Mountain
8. Janey Don't You Lose Heart
9. You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone +
10. Stand on It
11. Blue Highway
12. Somewhere North of Nashville

Version of Track 8 released on "I'm Goin' Down" single - Columbia, 1985
Version of Track 10 released on "Glory Days" single - Columbia, 1985
Version of Track 12 released on Western Stars - Columbia, 2019

CD 5/LP 6: Inyo

1. Inyo +
2. Indian Town
3. Adelita +
4. The Aztec Dance
5. The Lost Charro +
6. Our Lady of Monroe
7. El Jardinero (Upon the Death of Ramona)
8. One False Move
9. Ciudad Juarez
10. When I Build My Beautiful House

CD 6/LP 7-8: Twilight Hours

1. Sunday Love +
2. Late in the Evening
3. Two of Us
4. Lonely Town
5. September Kisses
6. Twilight Hours
7. I'll Stand by You
8. High Sierra +
9. Sunliner +
10. Another You
11. Dinner At Eight
12. Follow the Sun

Version of Track 7 released on Blinded by the Light (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Columbia/Legacy, 2019

CD 7/LP 9: Perfect World

1. I'm Not Sleeping +
2. Idiot's Delight
3. Another Thin Line
4. The Great Depression
5. Blind Man
6. Rain in the River +
7. If I Could Only Be Your Lover
8. Cutting Knife
9. You Lifted Me Up +
10. Perfect World

Version of Tracks 1-2 released by Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers on Coming Home - Viceroy Music, 1997
Version of Track 3 released by Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers on East Carson Street - Schoolhouse, 2009
Version of Track 10 released by John Mellencamp on Orpheus Descending - Republic, 2023