Their second album, Cease to Begin was released in October 2007. It was recorded by the core trio of Bridwell, Creighton Barrett (drums) and Rob Hampton (guitar and bass), with keyboards by Ryan Monroe. Band of Horses third album, Infinite Arms was released on May 18, 2010 and was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Alternative Album category. For Infinite Arms the band became a five-piece featuring Bridwell, Barrett, Monroe, Tyler Ramsey (guitar) and Bill Reynolds (bass). That line up has also recorded the band's 4th album, Mirage Rock, which was released on September 18, 2012. Other projects Bridwell contributed the track "Your Love Is Forever" a George Harrison cover, to the album Sweetheart a compilation album released by Starbucks Entertainment on January 30, 2010. He duetted with Courtney Jaye on a cover version of The Jesus and Mary Chain track "Sometimes Always" on her 2010 album, The Exotic Sounds of Courtney Jaye. Bridwell also appears on "Starting Over", a track on the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' album The Heist and on the tracks "Opposite" and "Accident Without Emergency" on the Biffy Clyro album Opposites. He also collaborated with Iron & Wine on a cover album called Sing into My Mouth, which was released on July 17, 2015. In 2017 Bridwell contributed two tracks ("Unlikely Force" and "Tara") to the super-group project BNQT's first album, Volume 1 released April 28. Brown Records Band of Horses third album, Infinite Arms, was released on Bridwell's previously defunct Brown Records label (along with Columbia and Fat Possum). Bridwell explained his original intentions for his label, "I really started it with the idea of it being a stepping stone. I would press a thousand CDs, we'd get 'em in stores...get in a local independent radio station and the band would have something to sell at shows and then hopefully a real label would pick it up. It got a lot busier than I ever imagined...in the end it just went out of control...I never expected it to be a real label. I'm re-pressing thousands and... 'Shit, I'm...gonna have to do this correctly, people's livelihoods (are) resting in my hands.'...I ended up cracking under the pressure, especially just getting those bands on a real label...That's always been my calling, spreading the bands I liked that people hadn't heard." With reference to the label's relaunch he added, "Now I've just heard that call again...a