Bruce Springsteen at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1994Bruce Springsteen during 1994 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images

If you had somehow made it through your whole life without hearing, or hearing about, Bruce Springsteen, I could play you Streets of Philadelphia Sessions—one of seven new-to-you-and-me Bruce Springsteen albums in the mammoth new boxed set Tracks II: The Lost Albums, which comes out June 27—and tell you this about it, without really lying: It’s a previously unheard, positively revelatory album of mournful synth-voice-and-beats songs, many of them about troubled relationships, recorded at home in 1994 by a 45-year-old singer-songwriter from Los Angeles by way of New Jersey, and it will instantly, retroactively go down as one of the best albums of that year.