Send Away the Tigers

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Manic Street Preachers

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Send Away the Tigers is the eighth studio album from the Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers. It was released on May 7, 2007 and made it to #2 on the UK album charts, missing the top spot by just 690 copies. The album is named after a phrase the English comedian Tony Hancock used to refer to "battling one's inner demons by getting drunk". The album is widely seen as a return to the more harder-edged sound of their earlier releases: the band itself has described it as a mixture of Generation Terrorists and Everything Must Go. The album was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, whose brother Tom provided the US mix of The Holy Bible.

The photographs used as the album artwork are taken from the book Monika Monster Future First Woman On Mars by Valerie Phillips.

The album sleeve features a quotation from Wyndham Lewis (there misspelled as "Wyndam Lewis"): "When a man is young, he is usually a revolutionary of some kind. So here I am, speaking of my revolution".

Nina Persson from The Cardigans shares vocals on "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough", the first proper single from the album.

The song "Rendition" concerns the act of extraordinary rendition, which has been described as a global system of human rights violations. The song is partly inspired by the academy award-winning 1982 film Missing starring Jack Lemmon.

"I'm Just a Patsy" is a direct quotation from Lee Harvey Oswald - who is referenced in the song - upon his public denial of the murder of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Send Away the Tigers was released in America on 24 July 2007 through the Red Int/Red Ink record label.

On September 2008 band embedded three songs on their website, named Donkeys (Acoustic), Untitled Instrumental and Motown Junk (The Johnny Boy Anniversary Mix). They were replaced by song from their next album in April 2009.

The album was BPI certified as achieving gold status (100,000 copies) during week 30 of 2007.