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 and called "Send Away the Tigers" a "brilliant pop record." Among less positive commentaries, "The Guardian" and "The Observer" both awarded the album three stars, with the latter describing "Send Away the Tigers" as a "pedestrian retread of former glories." Alex Denney went further in a negative review for Drowned in Sound, describing the album as a "bloated swansong" that was "embarrassing" in parts, with the band "going through the motions". AllMusic disagreed, with Stephen Thomas Erlewine describing its relatively short and concise length as a "welcome progression from a band that only a couple of albums back seemed stuck