Bruce Springsteen’s latest advance track from his upcoming archival box set, Tracks II: The Lost Albums, is a lush, melodic ballad called “Sunday Love.” The tune finds the Boss delving into chamber-pop sounds influenced by Burt Bacharach.
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The track is part of Twilight Hours, one of the seven previously unheard albums featured on Tracks II. According to a press statement, Twilight Hours is “an ode to the great American pop music tradition.” The album’s songs were written over the course of a decade at the same time that Springsteen was amassing tunes for his 2019 studio effort Western Stars.
Bruce described Twilight Hours as a collection of “romantic, lost-in-the-city songs” reflecting on people dealing with heartbreak. The press release further notes that Springsteen took inspiration for the material on the album from the singing of Frank Sinatra and Andy Williams, the writings of Flannery O’Connor and James M. Cain, and the 1947 noir thriller Out of the Past, which starred Robert Mitchum.
“Sunday Love” features contributions from E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg and backing singers Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell. Producer Ron Aniello played guitar, piano, and percussion on the track, while Springsteen’s Western Stars collaborators Kaveh Rastegar and Scott Tibbs contributed bass and keyboards, respectively.
Springsteen’s Comments About the Twilight Hours Album
In a statement, Springsteen discussed his initial plans for the release of the songs featured on Twilight Hours.
“At one time [Twilight Hours] was either a double record [with Western Stars] or they were part of the same record,” Bruce explained. “I love Burt Bacharach and I love those kinds of songs and those kinds of songwriters. I took a swing at it because the chordal structures and everything are much more complicated, which was fun for me to pull off. All this stuff could have come right off of those sixties albums.”
“Sunday Love” is available now as a digital download and via streaming services. It’s the sixth advance track released from the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set.
More About the Tracks II Box Set
As previously reported, Tracks II: The Lost Albums will be released on June 27. The seven albums featured in the package include recordings spanning from 1983 through 2018.
Besides Twilight Hours, the box set features six other full-length albums: LA Garage Sessions ’83, Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North of Nashville, Inyo, and Perfect World.
Tracks II, which can be pre-ordered now, is available as a limited-edition nine-LP set, a seven-CD collection, and via digital formats.
A companion album to Tracks II, titled Lost and Found: Selections from The Lost Albums, also will be released June 27. The 20-song collection will be available on CD and as a two-LP set.
All six advance tracks released from the box set—“Rain in the River,” “Blind Spot,” “Faithless,” “Repo Man,” “Adelita,” and “Sunday Love”—also appear on the Lost and Found compilation.
Springsteen’s 2025 Tour Plans
Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off a 2025 European tour on May 14 in Manchester, U.K. The 16-date trek is mapped out through a July 3 concert in Milan, Italy. The next show on the tour takes place Wednesday, June 15, in Prague, Czech Republic.
(Courtesy of Sony Music)
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