Casey MQ by Jason Al-Taan
SHARES LEAD SINGLE “THE MAKE BELIEVE” FEATURING OKLOU
LATER THAT DAY, THE DAY BEFORE, OR THE DAY BEFORE THAT DUE JUNE 7TH VIA GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Los Angeles-based, Canadian-born composer, producer, songwriter, and singer Casey MQ announces his new album Later that day, the day before, or the day before that due June 7th via Ghostly International. Along with the album and signing announcement, Casey MQ shares the lead single “The Make Believe” featuring frequent collaborator Oklou. The new single arrives with an ethereal video directed by Gaadjika, following Casey and Oklou traversing through a foggy and otherworldly field.
Speaking about “The Make Believe” and working with Oklou, Casey shares, “This song is the closing track to my forthcoming album and a love letter to ever-changing memories. I wrote it when I needed reassurance. I have often felt as though I am pieces of a scattered self and need to reckon with perpetually shifting memories and everyday loss. There is joy in forgetting; the song, to me, feels like the push or guidance of a loving friend, so expressing the sentiment with one of my best friends felt right.”
Later that day, the day before, or the day before that came about as Casey MQ spiraled into unconscious and subconscious-led writing sessions at the piano. With the new album he questions what is true entirely, understanding our mind’s tendency to bend and project onto pictures of the past. Across vivid, baroque pop balladry, Casey MQ reorients his recording project and point of view under the notion that memories are malleable. All the joy, pain, love, and loss housed within remembrance is open to interpretation and deconstruction, which he does deftly, with curiosity and complete artistic freedom.
“It’s a memory album,” Casey puts it simply, winding up for the deeper unpacking, “and it might be a breakup album, too…there are more questions than answers.” Engaging his dreams and sitting with sheet music at his newly acquired piano, he looked to new and old inspirations including the works of Claude Debussy, Joni Mitchell, and Joe Hisaishi’s beloved Studio Ghibli film scores. “Since I was young, I always wanted to write a piano album.” On Later that day…, Casey combines his electronica expertise with his love for piano compositions to create an atmosphere, giving Casey’s more spacious, minimal arrangements a distinct luster and sheen. The textures and tones shift from song to song as if mirroring the way our minds constantly recontextualize, remember, and forget.
Casey is known for his 2020 breakthrough album babycasey, which gave voice to songs seen through the lens of childhood, various film score work and collaborations with artists such as Oklou (who returns here), Eartheater, and Vagabon. His gifts as a producer and songwriter are rooted in textural world-building and the excavation of personal truth. babycasey includes the popular songs “Candyboy” and “Walls Could Talk.” Last year, Casey also teamed up with Cecile Believe for the track “I Got a Bike.”
Casey MQ
Later that day, the day before, or the day before that
June 7, 2024
Ghostly International
1. Grey Gardens
2. Asleep At The Wheel
3. Me, I Think I Found It
4. Dying ‘Til I’m Born
5. Is This Only Water
6. See You Later
7. Baby Voice
8. Words For Love
9. Tennisman9
10. The Make Believe (feat. Oklou)
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