Casey Manierka-Quaile

Casey Manierka-Quaile, also known as Casey MQ, is a Canadian singer, musician, film composer, songwriter, and record producer.[1] In 2022, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for "And Then We Don't", a song he co-wrote with Tika Simone for Thyrone Tommy's film Learn to Swim.[2]

Career

MQ began making music sometime during the 2010s. Formerly associated with the band Unbuttoned,[3] MQ released his solo debut album, titled babycasey, in 2020.[4] In the same year, he was one of the creators of Club Quarantine, a popular Zoom-based online club night for LGBTQ audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

In 2021, MQ followed up with the remix album babycasey: ultra.[6]

He has also been a member of the reunited lineup of 1980s New Wave band Spoons,[7] and was one of the producers on Cadence Weapon's Polaris Music Prize-winning album Parallel World.[8]

Discography

Albums

  • babycasey (2020, Halcoline Trance)

EPs

  • For the Beasts (with oklou) (2017, self-released)
  • Nudes (2018, Creamcake)
  • Two Songs (Live) (2023, Cascine)

As film composer

Remixes

Guest appearances

  • WolF J McFarlane – "Deaf Ears" (2013)
  • Emay – "7th" (2017)
  • 2nd Son – "Only Underground" (2017)
  • Cadence Weapon – "Infinity Pool" (2018)
  • DJ Charme – "Saudade" (2018)
  • L CON – "The Art of Staying Together" (2018)
  • Suicideyear – "Said and Done" (2018)
  • Desiire – "Goodbyes" (2018)
  • Sparrows – "On Air" (2019)
  • PBDY – "Prey/Pray" (2019)
  • oklou – "girl on my throne" (2020)
  • a l l i e – "Clean Sight" (2021)
  • Aasthma – "3AM" (2022)
  • Bliptor – "Back of Mind" (2022)
  • myst milano. – "NBHD" (2023)

Other contributions

Title Year Lead artist Album Credit(s)
Writing Production Instrumentation Vocals Arrangement
"Get Up" 2018 TiKA Non-album single Co
"Anywayz" 2020 Austra HiRUDiN Additional
"It's Amazing" Additional
"I Am Not Waiting" Additional
"fall" oklou Galore Additional
"unearth me" Additional
"god's chariots" Yes Co
"galore" Yes Co
"nightime" Yes Co Additional
"asturias"
(feat. Zero Castigo)
Additional
"rosebud" Yes Co
"girl on my throne"
(feat. Casey MQ)
Yes Yes Featured
"another night" Yes Co
"Connect" 2021 Cadence Weapon Parallel World Yes Yes
"Clean Sight"
(feat. Casey MQ)
a l l i e Tabula Rasa Yes Featured
"Highest Building"
(feat. oklou)
2022 Flume Palaces Yes
"No Sleep" 2023 Sophia Bel Anxious Avoidant Deluxe Co
"Puppets for the Gods" Rozie Ramati TBA Co
"Crush"
(feat. Erika de Casier)
Shygirl Nymph_o Yes Co
"Malocchio" Kara Lane Chokehold EP Yes Co
"Fruit
(Red, White & Royal Blue Version)
Oliver Sim Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Yes
"Lexicon" Vagabon Sorry I Haven't Called Yes Additional Programming
"Autobahn" Yes Additional Wurlitzer, organ
"Passing Me By" Synthesizer
"Interlude" Additional Synthesizer, drum programming
"Made Out With Your Best Friend" Yes Additional Synthesizer, drum programming
"Sugarcane Switch" Eartheater Powders Yes Co
"Clean Break" Yes Co
"rosa" Namasenda Ambrosia Co
"Idolize" Dorian Electra Fanfare Yes Co
"Yes Man" Yes Co
"Touch Grass" Yes Co
"Lifetime" Yes Co
"Warning Signs" Yes Co

References

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