Where It Goes

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[11]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	[12]
Rolling Stone	[13]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music	[5]

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]