Casey MQ
Casey MQ | |
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 Casey MQ performing at Lodge Room in Los Angeles. Photo by Will Buckley | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Casey Manierka-Quaile December 4, 1991 |
| Genres | experimental pop, electronic pop |
| Occupations |
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Casey William Manierka-Quaile (born 4 December 1991), better 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
Casey began his career studying classical piano. He would begin producing electronic music in the early 2010’s. In 2015 he began scoring films after attending the Canadian Film Centre for one year.
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. The virtual series became a massive cultural phenomenon, featuring performances from Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, and Pabllo Vittar, among others.
In 2016 he met oklou at Red Bull Music Academy and they would go on to make their first duo EP together entitled ‘For The Beast’. His debut album would be a conceptual pop album titled ‘babycasey’.
Upon the release of his debut album and co-producing Galore with oklou, Casey moved to Los Angeles to further entrench himself in production, songwriting and scoring.
In 2024 he released his 2nd album with the label Ghostly International entitled ‘Later that day, the day before, or the day before that’. In 2025, he reunited with oklou to co produce her next album ‘choke enough’. He 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)
Syncs in Film, TV Shows and Fashion Campaigns
- “Lurk” by Casey MQ & Oklou – Mugler SS25 Fashion Show (2024)
- “Candyboy” by Casey MQ – OOC Trailer - Bloody Hell Film (2024)
- “Lurk” by Casey MQ & Oklou – Dior Spring Summer digital campaign (2024)
- “Lurk’ by Casey MQ & Oklou – Dior Spring Summer runway show (2024)
- “Candyboy” by Casey MQ – Bloody Hell Film (2024)
- “Everlasting” by Casey MQ & Oklou – Eat The Night Film (2024)“Lurk” by Casey MQ & Oklou – DIOR Women’s Show SS26 (2025)
- “The Call” by Casey Manierka-Quaile – CHANEL Haute Couture Automne Hiver 2025-26 (2025)
Other contributions
| 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 | ||||
References
- ↑ "Casey MQ discography - RYM/Sonemic". Rate Your Music.
- ↑ "Nova / Eartheater / Credits". Tidal. Retrieved July 17, 2026.
- ↑ Trey Alston, "Would You Be Casey MQ's 'Candyboy'?". Paper, November 26, 2020.
- ↑ "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
- ↑ "Casey Manierka-Quaile". warpcomposers.net. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "Casey MQ: Many Hats, Constant Growth". SOCAN Words and Music. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ Edwards, Samantha (2019-09-04). "Interview: Toronto musician Casey MQ scores three films at TIFF 2019 - NOW Magazine". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ Rachel Evangeline Chong, "Casey MQ Celebrates and Interrogates the Glamour of '90s Boy Band Pop on 'babycasey'". Exclaim!, August 17, 2020.
- ↑ Alex Hudson, "Casey MQ Is Keeping Toronto's Nightlife Alive with Club Quarantine, Isolation's Biggest Queer Dance Party". Exclaim!, April 10, 2020.
- ↑ Gaca, Anna (2025-10-01). "Oklou's Endless Summer". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ Edwards, Samantha (2019-09-04). "Interview: Toronto musician Casey MQ scores three films at TIFF 2019 - NOW Magazine". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ Alex Hudson, "Casey MQ Announces 'babycasey: ultra' Remix Album". Exclaim!, September 29, 2021.
- ↑ "Oklou Welcomes You To 'Galore,' A Fantastical Pop Escape". Nylon. 2020-08-25. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ "2024 in Review: Music". ghostly.com. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ Magazine, Dork, Casey MQ – Later That Day, The Day Before, Or the Day Before That (2024) | Album profile, retrieved 2026-06-15
- ↑ "Oklou Comes Back to Earth With New Album "choke enough" - PAPER Magazine". www.papermag.com. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ Jenny Feniak, "Cadence Weapon's Parallel World wins 2021 Polaris Music Prize as best Canadian album". Edmonton Journal, October 1, 2021.