Indie-folk outfit Bon Iver [ tickets ] continues to support its debut album, "For Emma, Forever Ago," with a slate of December shows in Europe and the US.

Bon Iver (an intentionally misspelled adaptation of "Bon Hiver," French for "good winter") will start overseas and then return stateside for a handful of dates that begin with a Dec. 10-11 two-night stand at New York City's Town Hall. Stops include Boston; Philadelphia; Chicago; Brooklyn, NY; Louisville, KY; and the Wisconsin cities of Madison and Eau Claire. Swedish folk musician Kristian Matsson, a.k.a. The Tallest Man on Earth, will provide support. US dates are listed below and those overseas can be found at Bon Iver's MySpace page.

The group has been on a roll this year, releasing its debut indie CD, touring the world and making its US television debut on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." Fueling the buzz is a backstory that has intrigued both critics and fans alike.

The band's mastermind, Justin Vernon, wrote the album during a voluntary exile following his breakup with Wisconsin quartet DeYarmond Edison in 2006. He spent three winter months alone in a log cabin in northeast Wisconsin, living off the land, splitting wood and hunting for food. Though writing music wasn't his plan, the solitude began feeding his creativity.

"I just started playing the guitar and humming melodies and sounds that eventually turned into words," Vernon explained in Bon Iver's bio. "I didn't even really know where it was going. I was going back and finding amazing things that meant something to me using that process. I was able to access deeper, darker and even happier shit just by this sort of subconscious way of doing it."

A couple of tracks on "For Emma, Forever Ago" are streaming at Bon Iver's MySpace page.

The set was originally self-released late last year and the 500 copies available sold out immediately, according to the band's bio. Bon Iver was then picked up by the Jagjaguwar label in the US and 4AD in Europe, and the album cracked The Billboard 200 in February.

"For Emma, Forever Ago" was just named by Amazon.com as the No. 10 best CD of 2008.