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Casey Manierka-Quaile
Canadian musician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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
- Mary Goes Round (with Dillon Baldassero, 2017, dir. Molly McGlynn)
- Firecrackers (2018, dir. Jasmin Mozaffari)
- Honey Bee (2018, dir. Rama Rau)
- Tito (2019, dir. Grace Glowicki)
- Easy Land (2019, dir. Sanja Živković)
- Raf (2019, dir. Harry Cepka)
- Fitting In (2023, dir. Molly McGlynn)
- Backspot (2023, dir. D. W. Waterson)
- The Heirloom (2024, dir. Ben Petrie)
- Julian and the Wind (2024, dir. Connor Jessup)
Remixes
- Jeremy Dutcher – "Pomok na Poktoinskwes" (2018)
- Christine and the Queens – "Comme si" (2019)
- Detente – "Candles in the Wind" (2021)
- Sophia Bel – "You're Not Real You're Just a Ghost" (2021)
- Anna Clandening – "Girls Like You" (2022)
- Rose Gray – "Everything Changes (But I Won't)" (feat. Shygirl) (2025)
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)
- Nick Léon – "Ocean Apart" (2025)
Other contributions
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References
External links
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