The clues are there before you even slide the CD into the drawer. The faked Cyrillic type-face that adorns the cover echoes The Holy Bible, the band's last album to feature Richey Edwards.   Full text...

Wire describes Send Away the Tigers as an attempt to reclaim the "element of fabulous disaster" that marked the Manics' earliest work, when they dreamed of combining the revolutionary spirit of the Pistols and The Clash with the mainstream success of Guns N'Roses.  Full text...

It's the triumphant comeback of the year.  Full text...

Send Away The Tigers is one of the surprise packages of the year.  Full text...

Despite the usual whiff of self-improvement, Send Away the Tigers is downright playful by the standards of this famously serious band. At well under 40 minutes, just like the albums that inspired it, this certainly never drags. Clearly nostalgia can be fun, more fun than teenage years holed up in your room.  Full text...

The Manics were, and still are, a fabulous idea: a Welsh, working-class Clash who have slogged away for nearly 20 years, turning bookishness into bombast and politics into pop.  Full text...

Concise "back to basics" stuff from manifesto terrorists. Now, again, with tunes.  Full text...

Send Away The Tigers has been billed as their return to form, and that’s true in one sense, if by ‘form’ you mean the bombastic AOR punk perfected on EMG and gone horribly awry on This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours.  Full text...