The song’s 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’.
“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 Maltese explains.
"Buses Replace Trains" follows the singles "Always Some MF", "Anytime, Anyplace, Anyhow" and "Pined For You My Whole Life", which all feature on the forthcoming album, Hers.