Peter Jefferies "Duit on Tuesday" is an intimate journey through the cracks of the American dream. This is what happens when one of the most austere and subterranean voices of New Zealand post-punk meets the bittersweet irony and pop melancholy of one of the most unpredictable singer-songwriters of the last century: Harry Nilsson.
In this surprising ep, Peter Jefferies—a seminal figure in the underground scene with bands like This Kind of Punishment and Nocturnal Projections—pays homage to the emotional and musical universe of Harry Nilsson, reinterpreting a selection of his most iconic (and hidden) songs with a raw, minimal, and deeply personal approach.
Where Nilsson mocked convention with baroque orchestrations and crooked smiles, Jefferies strips everything down to the bare bones. The pounding piano, the lived-in voice: everything here is restrained tension, as if each song were reconstructed from a place of memory, distant in time but still alive beneath the skin.
From "Down", reduced to a stark and devastated elegy, to "Jump Into The Fire," transformed into a nervous mantra, each cover is a complete reinterpretation, where respect for the author coexists with the absolute freedom of the artistic gesture. It's not just a tribute: it's a dialogue between ghosts, a confession whispered in the dark.
An ep that doesn't seek to please, but wants to tell a story. And one that manages, surprisingly, to reveal new truths in songs we thought we already knew.
Almost Halloween Time, 2025