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 | 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 | ||||
| "Suburban Mall Jewelry" | Thoom | Fantasy for Danger | Yes | Co | ||||
| "Make It Work For Me" | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| "Puppets for the Gods" | Rozie Ramati | Non-album single | 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 | ||||||
| "Take It Off" | Soo Joo | No Ghost | Co | |||||
| "Nova" | Eartheater | Non-album single | Yes | Piano | ||||