Autumnsong on the screen. The alternative version, commissioned by the band themselves after being disappointed with the label's version and directed by Valerie Philips, is a single, one-camera shot of the girls featured on the "Send Away the Tigers" cover art miming to the song. The models are a Polish-American college student called Monika Monster and her cousin Kate. Autumnsong "Autumnsong" is a song by Manic Street Preachers and was the third single taken from the album "Send Away the Tigers". It was released on 23 July 2007. It peaked and debuted at number #10 in the UK Singles Chart. As
Journal for Plague Lovers Pitchfork's Joe Tangari, who summarized the album thus: "Even if it were the desperate or cynical move some people have claimed it is, there's no denying that purging Edwards' old lyric folder has helped the band create its best album in a decade. Quite simply, they haven't sounded so focused or so purposeful in a long, long time, and they are at their best with a sense of purpose underpinning their music." Likewise, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic remarked that "they were making inroads in this direction on 2007's "Send Away the Tigers" – for tight, clanking, cantankerous guitars" and