Send Away the Tigers special edition featured a remastered album as well as b-sides and rarities spread over two discs, plus a DVD which features the band's 2007 Glastonbury performance, rehearsal footage, an album track-by-track, and promo videos. Considered a return to form for Manic Street Preachers, "Send Away the Tigers" was released to generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 69 out of 100, which indicates "generally favourable reviews," based on 13 reviews. "Q" Magazine awarded the album four stars out of
Send Away the Tigers return to the hard-edged, more guitar-driven sound of their earlier releases, being described as a hard rock album by AllMusic and Sputnikmusic, as well as glam rock by "Uncut" and "Reno Gazette-Journal". The band itself has described it as a mixture of "Generation Terrorists" and "Everything Must Go". The album was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, whose brother Tom provided the US mix of "The Holy Bible". The album sleeve features a quotation from Wyndham Lewis (there misspelled as "Wyndam Lewis"): "When a man is young, he is usually a revolutionary of some kind. So here I am, speaking of my