“Once in a while an artist like Muggs comes along and rocks everything you thought you knew about music. Their atonal melodies and dissonant harmonic looping paired with rhythmic reminders of 90’s r&b make you feel nostalgic and simultaneously excited about the future of sound production. If you overhear someone talking about how it’s hard to make music original these days, do that person a favor and show them Muggs Fogarty."
—Roz Raskin, Self Luv Records

With special attention to live improvisational sessions, collaborators Muggs Fogarty and Will Farrell as Bittersweet create active sonic landscapes that ebb along lines of tight control and walls of chaotic release. Utilizing poetry, vocal looping, sampling, and textured synthesizer, Bittersweet creates unique emotional containers, each with their own dissolution in tow. From Providence, Rhode Island, Bittersweet was nominated for 'Best Noise Act' in 2026 via the RI Music Awards. 

‘Lookers live in the low-lit thrum between pleasure and petulance: part post-punk, part disco delirium, kissed by noise, tangled in pop. It’s angsty, alluring, and already halfway out the door. Born from the backroom spark of poet Muggs Fogarty and Rafay Rashid (Ravi Shavi), the band took shape with Providence stalwarts: bassist and violinist Florence Wallis (The Low Anthem), guitarist Nick Politelli, and drummer Bryan Fielding of Thug Honey. Deeper (2025), via Brooklyn’s Almost Ready Records, isn’t built for comfort. It breathes heavy, bites back, and disappears before dawn, leaving the room wrecked and you wondering where your heart went. Recorded by Bradford Krieger at Big Nice Studio, Deeper dives into the wild waltz of want: the hunger, the hush, the hot-blooded havoc. Songs simmer from Muggs’ word-wounds and Rafay’s sharp, swaggered instincts. Each track sways between tease and tantrum, plea and punch.’
—Alice Teeple, Post Punk Magazine