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Bruce Springsteen has shared “Faithless,” the third advance single from Tracks II: The Lost Albums. Set for release on June 27 via Sony Music, Tracks II is a collection of seven full-length records Springsteen recorded between 1983 and 2018, but stuck on the shelf for one reason or another. Today’s dusty, contemplative, wide-open country ramble is the title track to a soundtrack of the same name for a film that was never made.

Springsteen cut Faithless between the tour for his 2005 acoustic album Dust and Devils and the arrival of We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions in 2006–a period when his focused Americana looked to the West for a more traditional sonic palette. In the 11-track soundtrack, which features four instrumentals, frontier mythology provides a potent medium for his ruminations on spirituality and greater purpose. The project was naturally tracked before any film was shot as a largely solo venture for Springsteen, with scattered contributions from producer Ron Aniello, Patti Scialfa, Evan Springsteen and Sam Springsteen, plus touring members of The E Street Band–Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Curtis King, Jr., Michelle Moore and Ada Dyer.

“This was a really unusual collection of songs,” Springsteen reflected. “You could recognize details and maybe a character or two. But for the most part, I just wrote atmospheric music that I thought would fit.”

“Faithless” follows “Blind Spot,” a stormy, loop-based reflection on doubt and betrayal from the Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, and “Rain In The River,” which previewed Perfect World,  “the one thing on this that wasn’t initially conceived as an album.” The wealth of music on Tracks II also includes boldly divergent country and heartland sounds with pedal steel on Somewhere North of Nashville, a smoky traditional string-backed noir in Twilight Hours, the Mexican culture-inspired Inyo and LA Garage Sessions ’83, the coveted missing link between Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. that’s been among the most widely bootlegged projects from Springsteen’s discography in recent years.

Springsteen first opened up his archives in 1998 with Tracks, a celebrated four-disc collection of 66 unheard recordings from throughout his career. While he’s followed up on that impulse since with expanded reissues of Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River and more, he’s also kept stirring the pot for a follow-up to the revealing compilation–which he seems to have been just as eager to share as the fans have been to hear it.

“The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” Springsteen said. “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.”

Tracks II: The Lost Albums will be released on all digital platforms and as deluxe 9-LP and 7-CD packages. Pre-order the record here, and listen to “Faithless” below. Learn more about Springsteen’s busy year ahead at brucespringsteen.net.

Read on for the collection’s full tracklist.

Tracks II: The Lost Albums – Bruce Springsteen:

LA Garage Sessions ’83:
1. Follow That Dream
2. Don’t Back Down On Our Love
3. Little Girl Like You
4. Johnny Bye Bye
5. Sugarland
6. Seven Tears
7. Fugitive’s Dream
8. Black Mountain Ballad
9. Jim Deer
10. County Fair
11. My Hometown
12. One Love
13. Don’t Back Down
14. Richfield Whistle
15. The Klansman
16. Unsatisfied Heart
17. Shut Out The Light
18. Fugitive’s Dream (Ballad)

Streets of Philadelphia Sessions:
1. Blind Spot
2. Maybe I Don’t Know You
3. Something In The Well
4. Waiting On The End Of The World
5. The Little Things
6. We Fell Down
7. One Beautiful Morning
8. Between Heaven and Earth
9. Secret Garden
10. The Farewell Party

Faithless:
1. The Desert (Instrumental)
2. Where You Goin’, Where You From
3. Faithless
4. All God’s Children
5. A Prayer By The River (Instrumental)
6. God Sent You
7. Goin’ To California
8. The Western Sea (Instrumental)
9. My Master’s Hand
10. Let Me Ride
11. My Master’s Hand (Theme)

Somewhere North of Nashville:
1. Repo Man
2. Tiger Rose
3. Poor Side of Town
4. Delivery Man
5. Under A Big Sky
6. Detail Man
7. Silver Mountain
8. Janey Don’t You Lose Heart
9. You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone
10. Stand On It
11. Blue Highway
12. Somewhere North of Nashville

Inyo:
1. Inyo
2. Indian Town
3. Adelita
4. The Aztec Dance
5. The Lost Charro
6. Our Lady of Monroe
7. El Jardinero (Upon the Death of Ramona)
8. One False Move
9. Ciudad Juarez
10. When I Build My Beautiful House

Twilight Hours:
1. Sunday Love
2. Late in the Evening
3. Two of Us
4. Lonely Town
5. September Kisses
6. Twilight Hours
7. I’ll Stand By You
8. High Sierra
9. Sunliner
10. Another You
11. Dinner at Eight
12. Follow The Sun

Perfect World:
1. I’m Not Sleeping
2. Idiot’s Delight
3. Another Thin Line
4. The Great Depression
5. Blind Man
6. Rain In The River
7. If I Could Only Be Your Lover
8. Cutting Knife
9. You Lifted Me Up
10. Perfect World