Where It Goes is the second solo album by the American musician Lori Carson, released in 1995.[1][2] Carson supported the album with a solo acoustic tour as well as a tour with the Golden Palominos, of which she was a member.[3][4] "You Won't Fall" was included on the soundtrack to the film Stealing Beauty.[5]
Recorded at Power Station, in New York City, the album was produced by Anton Fier; Carson had considered working with him on her DGC Records debut.[6][7][8] Unlike their work on Golden Palominos albums, Carson and Fier chose spare arrangements and instrumentation.[9] Most of the songs are about the dissolution of a romantic relationship.[10]
Trouser Press wrote that the album "is grave and serious, sung with aching intensity and arranged with drawing-room sophistication."[14] The Sun Sentinel noted that "Carson has pared down the music to low acoustic levels so that her delicate voice and vision pierce through... It's a beautiful downer."[15]The Washington Post deemed Where It Goes "polished and pretty, if a bit commonplace."[16]Rolling Stone said that "this is an intimate late-night album of amatory post-mortems, with elegant ballads and art songs surveying the debris with a sharp, unforgiving eye."[13]LA Weekly determined that Carson's voice is "rather small but blessedly free of soul-and-fire affectation."[17]The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called the songs "internal landscapes as soundtracks to a larger consciousness".[12]The Rocket labeled Carson's soprano "the voice of a slightly disturbed and weary angel".[18]
