| Where It Goes | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Lori Carson |
| Cover: | Lori Carson - Where It Goes.png |
| Released: | 1995 |
| Studio: | Power Station |
| Length: | 44:14 |
| Label: | Restless |
| Producer: | Anton Fier |
| Prev Title: | Shelter |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Everything I Touch Runs Wild |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
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.
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.[5] [6] [7] Unlike their work on Golden Palominos albums, Carson and Fier chose spare arrangements and instrumentation.[8] Most of the songs are about the dissolution of a romantic relationship.[9]
Trouser Press wrote that the album "is grave and serious, sung with aching intensity and arranged with drawing-room sophistication."[10] 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."[11] The Washington Post deemed Where It Goes "polished and pretty, if a bit commonplace."[12] 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." LA Weekly determined that Carson's voice is "rather small but blessedly free of soul-and-fire affectation."[13] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called the songs "internal landscapes as soundtracks to a larger consciousness". The Rocket labeled Carson's soprano "the voice of a slightly disturbed and weary angel".[14]