Phil Ek

Around this time, Ek was frequently working with influential producer Jack Endino. Producing Built to Spill's second album, There's Nothing Wrong with Love, proved to be Ek's mainstream breakthrough (the album has since ranked in the Top Ten of Spin Magazine's top indie records of all time). Along with Built to Spill, Phil Ek has also worked with such indie rock bands as Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, Modest Mouse, Murder City Devils, The Shins, Duster, 764-HERO, Big Business and Mudhoney.

• Year — Band — Album • 1994 — Lync — These Are Not Fall Colors • 1994 — Built to Spill — There's Nothing Wrong with Love • 1994 — Butterfly Train — Building Distrust from Trust • 1994 — Green Apple Quick Step — Ludes and Cherry Bombs • 1995 — Earth — Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions • 1997 — Modest Mouse — The Lonesome Crowded West • 1997 — Built to Spill — Perfect from Now On • 1998 — Duster — Stratosphere • 1998 — Gas Huffer — Just Beautiful Music • 1998 — The Halo Benders — The Rebels Not In • 1998 — Caustic Resin — The Medicine Is All Gone • 1999 — Built to Spill — Keep It Like a Secret • 1999 — Built to Spill — Carry the Zero • 2000 — Modest Mouse — The Moon & Antarctica • 2001 — Built to Spill — Ancient Melodies of the Future • 2001 — The Murder City Devils — R.I.P • 2001 — Les Savy Fav — Go Forth • 2001 — Unwound — Leaves Turn Inside You • 2002 — Pretty Girls Make Graves — Good Health • 2002 — David Cross — Shut Up You Fucking Baby • 2003 — Pretty Girls Make Graves — The New Romance • 2003 — The Shins — Chutes Too Narrow • 2005 — Dios Malos — Dios • 2005 — Band of Horses — Everything All the Time • 2006 — Mudhoney — Under a Billion Suns • 2006 — Irving — Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers • 2007 — The Shins — Wincing the Night Away • 2007 — Terrene — The Indifferent Universe • 2007 — Band of Horses — Cease to Begin • 2007 — Sea Wolf — Leaves in the River • 2008 — Fleet Foxes — Fleet Foxes • 2009 — The Dodos — Time to Die • 2009 — Throw Me the Statue — Creaturesque • 2009 — Animal Kingdom — Signs and Wonders • 2010 — Shout Out Louds — Work • 2010 — Band of Horses — Infinite Arms • 2011 — Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues • 2012 — The Walkmen — Heaven • 2012 — Father John Misty — Fear Fun • 2014 — The Sidekicks — Runners in the Nerved World • 2015 — The Paper Kites — Twelvefour • 2017 — Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up • 2017 — The Black Angels — Death Song • 2020 — Smoke Fairies — Darkness Brings the Wonders Home • 2024 — Tyler Ramsey — New Lost Ages • 2025 — Dutch Interior — Moneyball