Bruce Springsteen Shares Track 'Blind Spot' From New Box Set of Lost Albums

The Boss has released “Blind Spot”: the latest song from a coveted box set of lost albums (Tracks II) that he announced this month.

“Blind Spot” is the first song ever to be released from the Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, an album known among fans as the “loops record.” According to Pitchfork, Springsteen recorded the 10-song album in the wake of its Oscar-winning title track. Inspired by West Coast hip-hop, he experimented with drum samples before creating his own bank of original “loops” with engineer Toby Scott.

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Springsteen is the primary player on the whole record, though additional input comes from Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, and his 1992-1993 touring band. The album was completed, mixed, and slated for a 1995 release, but wound up being shelved when Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band.

The lyrics of "Blind Spot" concern doubt and betrayal in relationships, Springsteen said in a press release. “That was just the theme that I locked in on at that moment. I don’t really know why. Patti and I, we were having a great time in California. But sometimes if you lock into one song you like, then you follow that thread. I had ‘Blind Spot,’ and I followed that thread through the rest of the record.”

Of the decision to shelve the record, he went on, “I said, ‘Well, maybe it’s time to just do something with the band, or remind the fans of the band or that part of my work life.’ So that’s where we went. But I always really liked Streets of Philadelphia Sessions… during the Broadway show, I thought of putting it out [as a standalone release]. I always put them away, but I don’t throw them away.”

Tracks II is set to drop June 27. (You can pre-order here.) It will consist of seven albums containing never-before-heard Springsteen music - all spanning from 1983 to 2018. With the initial announcement, he shared “Rain in the River,” which appears on the Perfect World collection: the one LP on Tracks II that was not originally conceived as a standalone album. The two songs shared so far are the first of 74 never-before-heard tracks that form the bulk of the bumper box set.

In other Springsteen news, a biopic based on the artist's life called "Deliver Me From Nowhere" is currently in post-production. It stars Jeremy Allen White and is directed by Scott Cooper.

Listen to "Blind Spot" below.

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