Bruce Springsteen to release 7 albums of unreleased songs, 'Tracks ll: The Lost Albums'

FILE - Bruce Springsteen performs at Stand Up For Heroes in New York on Nov. 1, 2016. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥

knows what Bruce Springsteen fans want. And that's more Bruce Springsteen.

The Boss will release seven new studio albums, titled 鈥淭racks II: The Lost Albums,鈥 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 he began completing 鈥渆verything I had in my vault,鈥 he says. 鈥淭he Lost Albums are records that were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released.鈥

Springsteen first teased the records on Wednesday morning. A short video posted to his Instagram account revealed that something called 鈥淭he Lost Albums" was forthcoming, along with Thursday's date, April 3, 2025. The clip also featured text that read 鈥淲hat was lost has been found.鈥

The caption urged his followers to head to It led to a subscription webpage and featured the dates 鈥1983-2018."

鈥淭racks ll" follows his first 鈥淭racks鈥 volume. Released in 1998, it was a 4-CD, 66-song collection of unreleased material.

Springsteen released his last studio album, 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 a frequent Springsteen collaborator, sang on two of the cuts.

鈥淚 wanted to make an album where I just sang,鈥 Springsteen said in a statement at the time. 鈥淎nd 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.

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This story corrects headline to add dropped letter in album's name.

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