Bruce Springsteen has announced the release of Tracks Vol. II: The Lost Albums, a new project coming Thursday. The news was shared on social media Wednesday morning, though no further details were revealed. The announcement follows the success of the first Tracks volume, a 1998 4-CD collection of unreleased material from Springsteen’s career.
A video accompanying the announcement features studio paperwork from 1993, including the session for his Oscar-winning song Streets of Philadelphia, as well as paperwork from 1997. The video carries the tagline, “What was lost has now been found,” and includes the date April 3, 2025—though it’s unclear whether this marks the album’s release or just additional information.
Springsteen, who begins his European tour next month, teased the project earlier in the week, prompting fans to speculate about its contents. The most popular guess is a full-band version of Nebraska, an album Springsteen recorded in 1981-82 but ultimately abandoned in favor of the solo demos he released. With the biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere—focused on the making of Nebraska—set for release later this year, it’s possible some of these tracks will appear in the new collection.
Since the release of Tracks Vol. I nearly 27 years ago, Springsteen has issued several archival collections, including expanded editions of Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and The River, along with live recordings available on his website.
The first Tracks volume covered material from 1972 to 1995 but featured only five post-1990 tracks. Fans are hoping that the bulk of Tracks Vol. II will focus on the past three decades, especially since the first volume only included one outtake from Nebraska—a notable omission.
In a 2017 interview with Variety, Springsteen explained, “We’ve made many more records than we released… but over my entire work life, I felt like I released what was essential at a certain moment.”
More details about Tracks Vol. II are expected soon.
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