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)
  • Later that day, the day before, or the day before that (2024, Ghostly International)

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 Yes
"Lexicon" Vagabon Sorry I Haven't Called Yes Additional Programming
"Autobahn" Yes Additional Wurlitzer, organ
"Nothing to Lose" 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
"CUT MY HEART OUT" daine TBA Yes Co
"Precious/Pressure" a l l i e Yes Yes
"For Your Consideration" 2024 Empress Of For Your Consideration Yes Additional
"What Type of Girl Am I?" Yes Yes
"Baby Boy" Yes Additional
"Alarms"
(feat. Austra) 		Cadence Weapon ROLLERCOASTER Yes Yes
"Fire" rei brown Aura Yes
"Not Your Angel" Zsela Big For You Yes Co Synthesizer, live drums, piano
"Brand New" Yes
"Play" Yes Co Piano, synthesizer, drum
"Blink Twice" Cecile Believe Tender the Spark Yes
"Red Brick" Yes Co
"Blue Sun" Yes Co
"10 in the Morning (Demo)" Dorian Electra Fanfare: The Lost Demos Yes Co
"endless" 2025 oklou choke enough Yes Co
"thank you for recording" Yes Co
"family and friends" Yes Co Additional
"obvious" Yes Co
"ict" Yes Co
"choke enough" Yes Co
"take me by the hand"
(feat. Bladee) 		Yes Co
"plague dogs" Yes Co
"forces" Yes Co
"harvest sky"
(feat. underscores) 		Yes Co
"want to wanna come back" Yes Co
"blade bird" Yes Co
"Virtue" Mallrat Light hit my face like a straight right Yes Yes
"The Light Streams in and Hits my Face" Yes Yes
"Love Songs / Heart Strings" Yes Yes

References

  1. ^ Trey Alston, "Would You Be Casey MQ's 'Candyboy'?". Paper, November 26, 2020.
  2. ^ "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
  3. ^ Elio Iannacci, "Cupid's revenge". Fashion, February 2017.
  4. ^ Rachel Evangeline Chong, "Casey MQ Celebrates and Interrogates the Glamour of '90s Boy Band Pop on 'babycasey'". Exclaim!, August 17, 2020.
  5. ^ Alex Hudson, "Casey MQ Is Keeping Toronto's Nightlife Alive with Club Quarantine, Isolation's Biggest Queer Dance Party". Exclaim!, April 10, 2020.
  6. ^ Alex Hudson, "Casey MQ Announces 'babycasey: ultra' Remix Album". Exclaim!, September 29, 2021.
  7. ^ Coral Andrews, "Spoons continue fun-loving journey". Waterloo Region Record, February 10, 2017.
  8. ^ Jenny Feniak, "Cadence Weapon's Parallel World wins 2021 Polaris Music Prize as best Canadian album". Edmonton Journal, October 1, 2021.