Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums (7CD Boxset)

''The Lost Albums' were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released', said Springsteen. 'I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them'. From the lo-fi exploration of 'LA Garage Sessions '83', serving as a crucial link between 'Nebraska' and 'Born in the U.S.A.', to the drum loop and synthesizer sounds of 'Streets of Philadelphia Sessions', 'The Lost Albums' offer unprecedented context to 35 prolific years of Springsteen's songwriting and home recording. 'The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions', Springsteen explained. Throughout the set, that sonic experimentation takes the form of film soundtrack work (for a movie that was never made) on 'Faithless', country combos with pedal steel on 'Somewhere North of Nashville', richly woven border tales on 'Inyo', orchestra-driven, mid-century noir on 'Twilight Hours' and E Street flavoured rock on 'Perfect World'.

The Lost Albums are available in a limited-edition nine-LP and seven-CD format, including original packaging for each previously unreleased record, with a 100-page cloth-bound, hardcover book featuring rare archival photos, liner notes on each lost album from essayist Erik Flannigan and a personal introduction on the project from Springsteen himself.