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Phil Ek is an American record producer, engineer and mixer. Ek began his career in Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s recording live sound in clubs. He then moved into studio recording, recording small projects and demos for local bands. Around this time, Ek was frequently working with influential producer Jack Endino. [1] 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.

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Selected discography

YearBandAlbum
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 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
2005Dios Malos Dios
2005 Band of Horses Everything All the Time
2006Mudhoney Under a Billion Suns
2006 Irving Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers
2007The Shins Wincing the Night Away
2007TerreneThe 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
2009Animal KingdomSigns and Wonders
2010 Shout Out Louds Work
2010 Band of Horses Infinite Arms
2011 Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
2012 The Walkmen Heaven
2012 Typhoon White Lighter
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

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References

  1. Bernhard, William (May–June 2002). "Seattle, WA Focus: Phil EK: Recording Built To Spill". Tape Op Magazine. No. 29. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  2. "Phil Ek | Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. "PHIL EK - Producer · Engineer · Mixer". Philek.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.