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]
Production
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]
Track listing
Where It Goes track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Down Here"
4:18
2.
"Waking to the Dream of You"
4:27
3.
"You Won't Fall"
4:37
4.
"Petal"
5:46
5.
"Twisting My Words"
4:12
6.
"Where It Goes"
3:06
7.
"Through the Cracks"
4:21
8.
"Fell into the Loneliness"
4:02
9.
"Anyday"
5:24
10.
"Christmas"
4:01
Total length:
44:14
References
^Shuster, Fred (April 7, 1995). "Pop Beat". Los Angeles Daily News. p. L24.
^Bambarger, Bradley (February 15, 1997). "Lori Carson primed for retail success with Restless set". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 7. pp. 1, 80.
^Taylor, Dan (Jul 21, 1995). "Pure acoustics". The Press Democrat. p. D1.
^Jaeger, Barbara (April 9, 1995). "The Golden Palominos, meanwhile...". The Record. Bergen County. p. E6.
^ abLarkin, Colin (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music. Virgin Books. p. 78.
