was the second album released by CKY to register on a music chart, reaching number 35 on the US Billboard 200 (the band's highest position to date). According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album sold 27,786 copies in the United States in its first week of release. According to Deron Miller, as of August 2015 the album has sold over 153,000 copies, making it the third-best-selling CKY album behind Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild and Volume 1. Critical Media response to An Answer Can Be Found was mixed. Ortenzi of Alternative Press awarded the album a rating of five out of five, claiming that "every riff feels precision cut; every melody holds a surprise; every drumbeat knocks the ball into the pocket; and the synth and classical-guitar accents ... serve the songs perfectly". AllMusic's Theakston was similarly positive in his four-star review, identifying an evolution in the band's sound from previous albums and praising the "tight" interplay between Miller and Ginsburg. Blabbermouth.net's review praised An Answer Can Be Found for its progression from Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild, guitar riffs, production style and melodic elements. Gigwise applauded the album too, describing it as a "wonderful album that must be purchased by all immediately", and highlighting "Suddenly Tragic" and "Tripled Manic State". However, writing for the magazine Exclaim!, Kendall Shields criticised An Answer Can Be Found for its lack of progression from Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild, claiming that the band "barely manage to reiterate, let alone reinvent the suburban skate punk wheel" on the album. She recognised the attempt at variety on the closing track "Don't Hold Your Breath", but concluded that the track does not appeal to many outside of the band's core fanbase. The album's review on Blabbermouth.net complained that An Answer Can Be Found lacks "one absolutely killer tune", and also criticsed Miller's vocal performances, which were described as "limited in range and ... a bit over-produced". PopMatters writer Lana Cooper claimed that An Answer Can Be Found is "knee-deep in dull songs indistinguishable from one another". The album received an infamously negative review from Rolling Stone writer Jenny Eliscu, who awarded it one star out of five and described it as "mind-numbing stoner metal, with ginormous power chords, repetitive vocals and overwrought lyrics". She even went as far as suggesting a listener might want to commit suicide just to "drown out the sound" of the album. Miller publicly responded to the review, criticising Rolling Stone for publishing Eliscu's opinion