Indie rock outfit Band of Horses [ tickets ] will get a quick start on 2008 with a January/February headlining tour as the band continues to support its sophomore album, "Cease to Begin."

The South Carolina-based group--now up to six members following the departure of co-founder Mat Brooke last year, which temporarily left the band's other founder, Ben Bridwell, as the sole remaining member--will kick off a 19-city outing Jan. 20 in Charleston, SC.

Currently comprised of Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Rob Hampton, Bill Reynolds, Ryan Monroe and Tyler Ramsey, the band will finish up the early 2008 trek Feb. 12 back in Bridwell's hometown of Mt. Pleasant, SC. The rest of the dates are below.

"Cease to Begin," which dropped in October, is the follow up to last year's critically lauded "Everything All the Time," the band's full-length debut on the Sub Pop label. For the new disc, the group worked once again with producer Phil Ek, splitting studio time between Seattle and Asheville, NC.

"I guess the first record had some kind of country-ish leanings and things [but] I think there's maybe a little bit more of [that] feeling on it, a little more down-home, I guess, and not so much indie rock," Bridwell told music website Pitchfork.com in July.

Bridwell and Brooke formed Band of Horses in 2004 out of the ashes of their previous band, Carissa's Weird, which released three indie-label albums. Already well known in Seattle indie circles, the duo signed with Sub Pop and toured extensively with Iron & Wine and Okkervil River before cutting their debut album.

Brooke left the band last summer to concentrate on his other going concern, indie rockers Grand Archives, who recently scored a record deal with the Sub Pop label.

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