'Buses Replace Trains'. the  title was born from a conversation with a close friend about band names his Welsh uncle had suggested to him when he was a teenager, including 'Buses Replace Trains'. The concept felt like the perfect basis for a sweet and earnest love song, with the grandeur of the subject matter bought to life with the swell of strings and twinkling keys. "I know it's not the simple, but it is", the song closes.

"There was something touching about the phrase 'Buses Replace Trains' out of context. It triggered of course the nostalgia of rail replacement buses in Reading growing up, but I also just couldn't shake that it was a title for a love song. So plain and ordinary and quotidian," Matt adds.

'Buses Replace Trains' follows the singles 'Always Some MF', 'Anytime, Anyplace, Anyhow' and 'Pined For You My Whole Life' as a taste of the mature musicality and heartache embodied in new album "Hers".

Matt Maltese 2025 tour dates 

1 December – La Cigale, Paris 

3 December – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels  

4 December – Tivoli Vrendenburg, Utrecht 

6 December – Kantine, Cologne  

7 December – Metropol, Berlin 

9 December – WUK, Vienna 

11 December – Legend Club, Milan 

13 December – Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona

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