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.
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)
EPs
For the Beasts (with oklou) (2017, self-released) Nudes (2018, Creamcake) Two Songs (Live) (2023, Cascine)
As film composer
Mary Goes Round (2017, with Dillon Baldassero, dir. Molly McGlynn) Firecrackers (2018, dir. Jasmin Mozaffari) Honey Bee (2018, dir. Rama Rau) Tito (2019, dir. Grace Glowicki) Easy Land (2019, dir. Sanja Zivkovic) Raf (2019, dir. Harry Cepka) Fitting In (2023, dir. Molly McGlynn) Backspot (2023, dir. D. W. Waterson)
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)
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)
Other contributions
References
21st-century Canadian male musicians
Canadian pop musicians
Canadian electronic musicians
Canadian male songwriters
Canadian record producers
Best Original Song Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian LGBT musicians Queer musicians 21st-century Canadian LGBT people