Orange Blossom Trail band
Orange Blossom Trail: the band Credit: @_kat.snaps

For their time in the Orlando music scene, Orange Blossom Trail have a profile that’s mysteriously low. They’ve been around for four years but mostly on the periphery — on small bills, on small stages and mostly as an opener. All of this defies logic.

You see, the septet of Christian Moyers (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Gray Castro (lead guitar), Jonath Chuck (lead guitar), Gabe Gutiérrez (bass), Joel Nieves (vocals, synth), Toni Carbello (backup vocals) and AJ Brand (drums) have a musical formula that’s remarkably wide in appeal. Upbeat tunes and sunny vibes like theirs are things only the most miserable curmudgeon can hate. Yet here they are, still an underrated band. Hopefully, Orange Blossom Trail’s latest release will rectify that. 

OBT’s output thus far has only been a string of singles. But the new You’re Onto Something and You Don’t Even Know It Yet — a compilation of all their material to date — is an eight-song portrait of an open-armed band with an immediate and approachable sound. Their power-pop hooks are infectious, and their emo streak draws from the genre’s anthemic Midwest side, not its harder emocore roots or the maudlin sap of its latter-day simps. 

Although there are several acoustic numbers, this comp is primarily powered by big rockers like “I Hope This Email Kills Us Both,” “Hey Siri, Call Isaac Harris” and the excellent Jimmy Eat World-esque “It Says ‘Husky’ On My Jeans.” But even when stripped-down, OBT’s music soars with melody, heart and humor. This is a band that knows how to sail pop-rock waters without being cloying or annoying. No easy feat, that.

You’re Onto Something is a consolidated reminder of a band Orlando is sleeping on. And its timing is opportune as a primer for an imminent rollout of fresh material that’ll culminate in OBT’s first proper album, slated for January. That one will be exhaustingly but hilariously titled God, Why Do You Give Us Your Emptiest Shows? For You, My Sons, Are My Localest Band.

The You’re Onto Something comp is available on Bandcamp digitally or on CD, which you can also score at OBT’s shows like this week’s appearance opening for Ian McConnell.

8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Will’s Pub, willspub.org, $16-$18.

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This article appears in Oct. 21-27, 2026.

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