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  • Summary: The fourth full-length studio release for the blues rock band was self-produced and is its first with new drummer Tony Leone.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Aug 3, 2016
    80
    Such accents as early-'70s analog synths and a couple of pastoral acoustic numbers may give Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel a throwback feel but the Chris Robinson Brotherhood aren't living in the past, they're pushing jam band tradition forward by keeping their expansion focused on funk.
  2. 80
    Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel is full of things we’ve become accustomed to over the band’s previous three albums: psychedelic trippiness, carefree country-soul, swampy southern rock rolled out under a baking California sun. Yet it’s also wonderfully loose and instinctive.
  3. Uncut
    Jul 27, 2016
    80
    These songs achieve something like topicality, sounding all the more invigorated and just plain fun for having one foot in the past and the other in an uncertain present. [Aug 2016, p.68]
  4. Mojo
    Jul 27, 2016
    60
    It's hard to imagine CRB ever re-inventing the wheel, but boy do they know how to roll. [Sep 2016, p.96]
  5. Aug 10, 2016
    60
    Their latest morphs between latter-day Grateful Dead and P-Funk, longer on vibes than songs but confirming their spot on the jam-band top tier.
  6. 60
    This freeform, unapologetically hirsute approach is a salutary corrective to the wipe-clean version of the American musical motherlode peddled by umpteen more mainstream acts.
  7. Q Magazine
    Jul 27, 2016
    20
    California Hymn pulls something out of the hat at the end, but Anyway.... is so addled and confused it will likely be in the bin long before then. A real shocker. [Sep 2016, p.111]

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  1. Aug 9, 2016
    10
    This album will make you smile and think "Thank God, there are still musicians that can write so good songs". Chris Robinson did it again. OneThis album will make you smile and think "Thank God, there are still musicians that can write so good songs". Chris Robinson did it again. One of the best albums of 2016 so far. Expand
  2. Aug 21, 2016
    5
    This album is good but not great as their previous. I did enjoyed the songs but they´re more straight forward than their layered prog psychThis album is good but not great as their previous. I did enjoyed the songs but they´re more straight forward than their layered prog psych songs from both Big Moon Ritual and Phosphorescent Harvest. Just can´t connect with this one, starting from the cover. Despite having some really good songs like Aint It Hard But Fair and Leave My Guitar Alone, most of it is just.. not sounding like CRB. Passing on a producer like Thom Monahan was not their smartest decision. Expand