Northeast Performer has been around forever. We've been sending CDs to them since well before we had driver's licenses, though back then it was just called New England Performer. Anyway, back in the March 2006 issue Nick Millevoi reviewed Jerry Fels' "How To Make Enemies and Influence Strangers":

"The best word to describe How to Make Enemies and Influence Strangers is clever. Jerry Fels is a lo-fi indie rocker with a dark sense of humor who writes songs in the same vein as Lou Barlow and early Bright Eyes. This album has a mellow vibe with songs that mostly consist of Fels' voice and his nylon-string acoustic guitar. The occasional keyboard or percussion is just enough to add the right colors to Fels' songs.

The songs are catchy and often repetitive. Fels' lyrics display his wit, though many tend to be rather bleak, such as E.L.T.S., which features the line "Everybody is alone because everyone is the same." No lyrics need to be mentioned to illustrate the sentiment that Fels displays on We Are Going to Die.

Fels takes things so far to the extreme that it becomes evident that he's probably not taking himself too seriously and is having a fun time, in turn making How to Make Enemies... a lot of fun to listen to. Throughout the album there are several moments that provoke a good chuckle, particularly on I Bet They Were Fucking, a song about a guy who calls an ex-girlfriend and realizes she was, well, fucking. This song has some pretty sad overtones, which are lightened with lines like, "Who needs friends when he's giving you the bone."

Ultimately, this is a dark record filled with just the right sense of humor that it is fun to listen to repeatedly. With this record, Jerry Fels manages to craft catchy, dark lo-fi brilliance."