Beijing-born, Boston- and Tokyo-trained artist Mixol announces her debut EP ‘The Fool,’ along with its first single, ‘we jump, our carnival,’ a fierce, full-body track that taps into women’s power and doesn’t wait for approval.

Raised in Beijing and shaped by years of moving between cities and languages, Mixol writes like someone who doesn’t buy into fixed meaning. Her songs shift between textures, voices, and emotional states. You can catch flashes of Björk, Kate Bush, Fiona Apple, and Sheena Ringo, but they don’t sit still. They blur, twist, and come back as something harder to pin down.

‘The Fool’ takes its name from the first tarot card. Not innocence so much as that suspended second before a step forward. Language bends. Lines feel half-dreamed, then cut sharp. Melodies don’t quite land where you expect. The songs move like thoughts forming in real time. Across the EP, tension keeps slipping between desire, doubt, control, and release. Nothing locks into place for long.

Outside the music, Mixol is building a strange parallel world. Each track connects to its own 8-bit narrative game. Cute at first, a little off if you stay. Short videos pull from low-budget horror and scraps of internet culture, pieced together with a kind of obsessive focus.

‘we jump, our carnival’ lands March 31. The Fool follows June 15.