Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers: 10 Year Collectors Edition '2017

Tracks list

Tracklist
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CD1
01. Send Away the Tigers (Remastered)
02. Welcome to the Dead Zone (Remastered)
03. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Remastered)
04. Indian Summer (Remastered)
05. The Second Great Depression (Remastered)
06. Rendition (Remastered)
07. Autumnsong (Remastered)
08. Im Just a Patsy (Remastered)
09. Imperial Bodybags (Remastered)
10. Winterlovers (Remastered)
11. Working Class Hero (Remastered)
12. Send Away the Tigers (Demo)
13. Underdogs (Demo)
14. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Demo)
15. Indian Summer (Demo)
16. The Second Great Depression (Demo)
17. Rendition (Demo)
18. Autumnsong (Demo)
19. Im Just a Patsy (Demo)
20. Imperial Bodybags (Demo)
21. Winterlovers (Demo)

CD2
01. Leviathan (Remastered)
02. Umbrella (Remastered)
03. Ghost of Christmas (Remastered)
04. Boxes and Lists (Remastered)
05. Love Letter to the Future (Remastered)
06. Little Girl Lost (Remastered)
07. Fearless Punk Ballad (Remastered)
08. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Nina Solo Acoustic) (Remastered)
09. Red Sleeping Beauty (McCarthy Cover) (Remastered)
10. The Long Goodbye (Remastered)
11. Morning Comrade (Remastered)
12. 1404 (Remastered)
13. The Vortices (Remastered)
14. Autumnsong (Acoustic Version) (Remastered)
15. Anorexic Rodin (Remastered)
16. Heyday of the Blood (Remastered)
17. Foggy Eyes (Remastered)
18. Lady Lazarus (Remastered)
19. You Know Its Going to Hurt (Instrumental) (Remastered)


Like many long-term relationships, Manic Street Preachers benefited from some
time apart, as their seventh album, Send Away the Tigers, makes plain. Arriving
on the heels of 2006 solo albums from both singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield
and lyricist/bassist Nicky Wire, Send Away the Tigers finds the group recharged
and revitalized, achieving the widescreen grandeur of Everything Must Go but
infusing it with a harder rock edge that may not be as furious as their earliest
work, but is no less committed. This surging sense of purpose was conspicuously
absent on the Manics previous albums, which grew increasingly mannered in their
attempts at majestic pop, culminating in the pleasant but too soft Lifeblood.
Its hard to call Tigers soft - it thunders even in its quietest moments, and
when strings or keyboards are brought in, theyre drowned out by guitars. This
doesnt sound like a desperate measure; it sounds like recommitment on the part
of the Manics, especially since they havent abandoned the melodic skills theyve
honed over the past decade. Theyve merely melded them to muscular yet mature
rock & roll. Its that commitment to hard rock that makes Send Away the Tigers
bracing upon its initial listen, but what makes it lasting is the songs, which
may lack anthems on the level of A Design for Life, but theyre something better:
theyre small-scale epics, roiling with drama and coiled with tension, flirting
with being overblown but kept grounded by the groups reclaimed righteousness and
newfound sense of control. That leanness applies to the album overall as well -
where every Manics record since Everything Must Go grew increasingly
over-stuffed, this has no flab, and its ten songs have a relentless momentum.
Its still pretty bombastic - the Manics were never about subtlety - but the
sweeping gestures are delivered with a sense of efficiency that makes Send Away
the Tigers never seem heavy-handed, which is something that even their best
albums often are. So, this isnt merely a return to form, then - its also a
welcome progression from a band that only a couple of albums back seemed stuck
in a rut with no way out. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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