Bruce 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.