Tracks II: The Lost Albums

Tracks II: The Lost Albums is a box set compilation album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It was released on June 27, 2025, through Columbia Records and serves as a follow-up to his 1998 box set Tracks, featuring previously unreleased songs recorded between 1983 and 2018. The collection is organized into seven thematic albums, each showcasing rare and archival material from various sessions throughout Springsteen's career. To promote the release of the box set, Springsteen released six songs, one every two weeks, as promotional singles prior to the release of the box set.

The box set includes seven full-length and unreleased albums,^[1] spanning 83 songs in total, 74 of them previously unheard.^[2] All of the songs were written and recorded between 1983 and 2018.^[3] Following the release of his first box set Tracks, it was long speculated as to when Springsteen would release a sequel. In a 2017 interview with Vulture, he explained that the records had never been released because they did not feel "essential" to him, even if he liked them or had fun recording them.^[4] However, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the singer-songwriter dug through his vault in order to leave the narrative of his "lost 90s" behind.^[5] According to Springsteen, Tracks II includes "complete records," some of which were even mixed and mastered. He had played some of the music for himself and, at times, for close friends over the years.^[6]

The unreleased albums in Tracks II: The Lost Albums highlight different phases of Springsteen's work. LA Garage Sessions '83 features raw, lo-fi recordings reminiscent of the period between Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. Somewhere North of Nashville leans into country rock, Inyo channels spaghetti western themes, Twilight Hours explores cinematic, melancholic soundscapes, and Faithless offers a spiritually tinged, filmic atmosphere.^[7]

A seventeen-minute documentary titled Inside Tracks II: The Lost Albums was released on June 20, 2025, that gives viewers an in-depth look at each Lost Album as told by Springsteen himself.^[8]

In June 2025, Springsteen confirmed that there would also be a third and final box set, Tracks III, potentially to be released in the next three years. He stated that Tracks III would be similar to the first Tracks box set, containing songs from across his entire career rather than complete albums.^[9]

All songs are written by Bruce Springsteen, except where noted.^[10]

Recorded in 1983 between the recording sessions of Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A..^[11] All songs produced by Bruce Springsteen and Ron Aniello.^[10]

Recordings from 1993–1994.^[11] All songs are produced by Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin, and Jon Landau.^[10]

Recorded in 2005–2006.^[12] The album was intended to be a soundtrack for a "spiritual Western" film that was never produced.^[11] All songs produced by Bruce Springsteen and Ron Aniello.^[10]

Recorded in 1995 alongside The Ghost of Tom Joad sessions.^[13] The title track was eventually re-recorded and included on Western Stars in 2019. All songs produced by Bruce Springsteen and Ron Aniello.^[10]

Recorded during the Ghost of Tom Joad tour (1995–1997).^[14] All songs produced by Bruce Springsteen and Ron Aniello.^[10]

Originally recorded 2010–2011 and 2017–2018, during the Western Stars sessions.^[11][15] All songs produced by Bruce Springsteen and Ron Aniello.^[10]

Recordings from 1994 to 2011.^[11] All songs produced by Bruce Springsteen and Ron Aniello.^[10]

A companion compilation album titled Lost and Found: Selections from The Lost Albums was also released on June 27, 2025. It features twenty highlights selected by Springsteen from across the collection of Tracks II: The Lost Albums. The album is a two-LP vinyl set or single CD and includes a personal introduction from Springsteen.^[40]