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]
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]
Title | Year | Lead artist | Album | Credit(s) | ||||
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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 | |||||
"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 | ||||
"What Type of Girl Am I?" | Yes | Yes | ||||||
"Baby Boy" | Yes |