Springsteen fans are advised to start saving those shekels ahead of the 6/27 arrival of Tracks II: The Lost Albums, which houses an astonishing seven complete unreleased albums from The Boss' fabled vault.

Compiled by Springsteen with producer Ron Aniello, engineer Rob Lebret and longtime manager Jon Landau, the Sony Music effort is the long-awaited sequel to 1998's Tracks, which brought forth 66 unreleased songs of its own.

Formats include a nine-LP or seven-CD set, each with a 100-page, cloth-bound hardcover featuring rare photos, essays and an introduction by Springsteen. It will also be available on street date in a condensed, 20-track incarnation dubbed Lost and Found: Selections From the Lost Albums.

As for the music contained therein, it spans every facet of Springsteen's sound, beginning with LA Garage Sessions '83, said to be "a crucial link" between the previous year's stark, solo Nebraska and the eventual worldwide smash Born in the U.S.A.

Drum loops and synths dominate Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, while Faithless seems to be a soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. Somewhere North of Nashville presents "country combs with pedal steel," Inyo proffers "richly woven border tales," Twilight Hours goes in an "orchestra-driven, mid-century noir" direction and Perfect World rumbles with "arena-ready E Street flavor."

Perfect World birthed "Rain in the River," which is the first cut to see the (pun intended) light of day from Tracks II.

"The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of musical directions. The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” said Springsteen. “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 these albums. I hope you enjoy them.”

HITS will need more time to fully digest the breadth of Tracks II, but a few other things worth mentioning: "Follow That Dream" is a reimagining of an Elvis Presley song that has been in Springsteen's live set since 1984; a different take of "Secret Garden" previously appeared on the Jerry Maguire soundtrack; "Shut Out the Light" was a Nebraska-era B-side apparently presented here in a full-band version; and "I'll Stand by You" was supposed to be in a Harry Potter film but wound up on the Blinded by the Light soundtrack instead.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be back onstage starting 5/14 in Manchester, England, as part of a summer European tour. Scroll down to hear the man discuss the genesis of Tracks II while we mutter the lyrics to "Glory Days" under our breath.