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 five, describing "Send Away the Tigers" as a "back-to-basics" rock record and calling it "overdue": ""Send Away the Tigers" refocuses the trio, allowing them to relocate their original plot and make a big rock classic." The publication cited the single "Autumnsong" as its highlight, while "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" won Best Track at the 2007 Q Awards. "NME" gave the album eight out of ten, calling it the band's best release since 1996's "Everything Must Go", and the "cathartic regeneration that the band really needed in order to become relevant again." Talia Kraines, writing for BBC Online, agreed