Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers

LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ SONY Music) - The Manic Street Preachers have been through a process of destroying what we are. All great bands do that... but ever since Everything Must Go and This Is My Truth we've been trying to reduce ourselves to a pile of rubble.
So, for Send Away The Tigers, we've been listening back to Everything Must Go and even the youthful idealism of Generation Terrorists, placing ourselves back at being 18 or 21 again, and reconnecting with all the things that made us so excited back then. Cynicism is brilliant. But it gets to a point where it's not helpful when you're in a band.

Send Away The Tigers isn't a high concept album, but the theory behind it is important. We've written about 30 songs for this album, and we've been fiercely editing this time because in the past we'd perhaps put too much on some of our albums. These are the best ten songs. It's short... 38 minutes.
When we started this album it was the three of us, in a rehearsal room, making a right old racket. Sometimes you have to learn from your own past.
James playing huge guitar solos without me and Sean going, "Stop wanking!" We just felt liberated.