Casey Manierka-Quaile

Casey Manierka-Quaile, also known as Casey MQ, is a Canadian singer, musician, film composer, songwriter, and record producer. 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. He collaborated with artists such as Oklou, Empress of, Shygirl, Eartheater, and Vagabon.

Career

MQ began making music sometime during the 2010s. Formerly associated with the band Unbuttoned, MQ released his solo debut album, titled babycasey, in 2020. 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.

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

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

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)
• Détente – "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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