Video: Chase Cohl, ‘Take It Like a Man’

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Chase Cohl (Photo by Kristin Gallegos)

Chase Cohl is a musician, poet and fashion designer, and the daughter of parents in the music industry whose childhood was informed, in part, by spending time on tour with the likes of the Rolling Stones. The Canadian-born singer-songwriter, who splits her time between L.A. and New York, embraced the sounds of Laurel Canyon folk music in her early releases, but her new EP, “Dear Dear: Volume 1,” is another story.

Collaborating with 78-year-old keyboardist-songwriter Barry Goldberg and working at the legendary Valentine Recording Studios, Cohl is a mighty girl group of one on the EP, a precursor to a full-length planned for later this year.

Loren Humphrey (of Guards, and also drummer for Florence + the Machine) produced, and Cohl was backed by the likes of Father John Misty/Beck guitarist Benji Lysaght and Tyler Parkford and Zachary Dawes of Mini Mansions, among many others.

“Take It Like a Man” is a beautiful time capsule to the Brill Building era, and Gemma Warren directs a video to match.

“I think this style of music should be held in the same acclaim as the Beatles,” Cohl says. “It’s perfect pop songwriting. None of the songs are more than three minutes long, but they’re so emotional.”

On working with Goldberg, who’s a walking piece of music history, Cohl explains: “Barry played on a session of mine years ago that never came out. A couple years later, I ran into him at the supermarket. He calls everyone ‘man,’ and so he said, ‘Hey man, would you ever want to write together?’ I grew up on a cassette tape of the Ronettes’ ‘Greatest Hits,’ and I love the timelessness of that style of music. So Barry and I thought, let’s try and take a crack at reviving it. Nobody’s doing it. Let’s see if we can pay homage to those great girl groups. These four songs are sort of a sampler plate of what’s to come.”

“Take It Like a Man” — and probably the whole EP — would have taken the pop world by storm in 1963. It sounds awfully fresh today. “Dear Dear: Volume 1” came out on Friday.

||| Watch: The video for “Take It Like a Man”

||| Stream: “Dear Dear: Volume 1”