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
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