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) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writing | Production | Instrumentation | Vocals | Arrangement | ||||
| "Get Up" | 2018 | TiKA | ||||||
| "Anywayz" | 2020 | Austra | HiRUDiN | |||||
| "It's Amazing" | ||||||||
| "I Am Not Waiting" | ||||||||
| "fall" | oklou | Galore | ||||||
| "unearth me" | ||||||||
| "god's chariots" | ||||||||
| "galore" | ||||||||
| "nightime" | ||||||||
| "asturias" (feat. Zero Castigo) | ||||||||
| "rosebud" | ||||||||
| "girl on my throne" (feat. Casey MQ) | ||||||||
| "another night" | ||||||||
| "Connect" | 2021 | Cadence Weapon | Parallel World | |||||
| "Clean Sight" (feat. Casey MQ) | a l l i e | Tabula Rasa | ||||||
| "Highest Building" (feat. oklou) | 2022 | Flume | Palaces | |||||
| "No Sleep" | 2023 | Sophia Bel | Anxious Avoidant Deluxe | |||||
| "Puppets for the Gods" | Rozie Ramati | |||||||
| "Crush" (feat. Erika de Casier) | Shygirl | Nymph_o | ||||||
| "Malocchio" | Kara Lane | Chokehold EP | ||||||
| "Fruit (Red, White & Royal Blue Version) | Oliver Sim | Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | ||||||
| "Lexicon" | Vagabon | Sorry I Haven't Called | ||||||
| "Autobahn" | ||||||||
| "Nothing to Lose" | ||||||||
| "Interlude" | ||||||||
| "Made Out with Your Best Friend" | ||||||||
| "Sugarcane Switch" | Eartheater | Powders | ||||||
| "Clean Break" | ||||||||
| "rosa" | Namasenda | Ambrosia | ||||||
| "Idolize" | Dorian Electra | Fanfare | ||||||
| "Yes Man" | ||||||||
| "Touch Grass" | ||||||||
| "Lifetime" | ||||||||
| "Warning Signs" | ||||||||
| "CUT MY HEART OUT" | daine | |||||||
| "Precious/Pressure" | a l l i e | |||||||
| "For Your Consideration" | 2024 | Empress Of | For Your Consideration | |||||
| "What Type of Girl Am I?" | ||||||||
| "Baby Boy" | ||||||||
| "Alarms" (feat. Austra) | Cadence Weapon | ROLLERCOASTER | ||||||
| "Fire" | rei brown | Aura | ||||||
| "Not Your Angel" | Zsela | Big For You | ||||||
| "Brand New" | ||||||||
| "Play" | ||||||||
| "Blink Twice" | Cecile Believe | Tender the Spark | ||||||
| "Red Brick" | ||||||||
| "Blue Sun" | ||||||||