It may be a tad too early to declare the summer album, but Desert Ocean may well fit the bill for me. It certainly is warming up in Georgia anyway. The weekend’s highs were in the upper 80’s, so really not that far off from feeling like summer. At the very least, this would be a fantastic summer road trip album. And with song titles like “Venture,” “Summer Break,” and “Cross Country,” Lanterna’s main man Henry Frayne must have had a similar frame of mind. These songs all have an early morning, striking out on multiple hundred miles of road feel to them. Bright sounding guitar-based instrumentals, they each manage to retain a sort of quiet solitude. I can easily visualize eating up close to an hour’s worth of highway with this playing while my traveling companions doze off drooling behind and to the side of me. But then again, with gas prices soaring, I will say Desert Ocean also works pretty well with the sun shining brightly through the window while folding laundry too.