Send "MANIC STREET PREACHERS " Ringtones to your Cell 
| MusicOMH.com |
 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. Then there's a quote from Wyndam Lewis: "When a Man is young he is usually a revolutionary of some kind. So here I am speaking of my revolution" that tells you every thing you need to know about this album. Send Away The Tigers finds the Manic Street Preachers rediscovering what made them tick as a band, and speaking of their revolution....full text |
| The Independent |
| Sometimes, you have to walk off a distance to reorient yourself with your surroundings and discern the right direction to take. This is what seems to have happened with the Manic Street Preachers, who on 2004's Lifeblood appeared to have lost much of their impetus, replacing their fiery spirit with an approach that sounded like they were trying to emulateColdplay. In the interim, both Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield have released solo albums from which they have emerged with a new focus and determination....full text |
| Sputnikmusic.com |
| Sometimes even coincidence tries too hard. The very day Send Away The Tigers was released across Europe, seminal British electronic pop group New Order announced what appears to be their conclusive split. Mere happenstance, or one of pop’s all-time dramatic statements? I prefer the latter. No strangers to overt symbolism themselves, the Manic Street Preachers have gone straight back to source with their eighth studio release. Dispensing with the ill-advised ironic detachment of 2004’s electro-pop middler Lifeblood, Send Away The Tigers is very much a modern hard rock record: concise, at just ten songs and thirty-eight minutes, and more musically and thematically coherent than they’ve been for a decade....full text |
MANIC STREET PREACHERS lyrics
