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Get Lost in Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II: The Lost Albums
What to expect from the massive archival set.
For a period of time, he seemed content to put a bow on his hallowed mythos before reviving the E Street Band for 2020’s Letter to You, chasing it with a soul-covers album called Only the Strong Survive in 2022 and soldiering through a globe-trotting tour despite multiple setbacks related to the pandemic and his own health. Many of these songs have floated around as leaked demos for years, like “The Klansman,” “Unsatisfied Heart,” or “County Fair.” (If you dig up these recordings, they basically sound like foundational DNA for the more washed-out synth-Bruce aesthetics later adopted by bands like the War on Drugs.) After running out of steam with the uneven 1992 sister albums Lucky Town and Human Touch, Springsteen spent most of the decade raising his kids and tentatively circling a reunion with the E Street Band while searching for new directions.
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