JO MEARES SILVER BULLETS' DEBUT ALBUM - RELEASED 2024. This album is an attempt to capture the feel and sound of Jo Meares' Silver Bullets live. It is the sound of a band live in the studio with very little overdubs.

"This is a magnificent album. Steeped in an antipodean dusty dryness yet leavened by bright rays of sunshine and Meares's eloquent poetry that strike like shards of lightning. Jo Meares' Silver Bullets take us on an extraordinary journey into the heart of darkness: a swampy gothic paradise laced with white frills and blood red velvet. His voice is an unguent, a salve that at the same time hypnotises and mesmerises, drags you into a beautiful stunning abyss" Arun Kendall, Backseat Mafia on Jo Meares’ Silver Bullets self titled 2024 album

'DREAM HOTEL' released in 2022 was produced by Anth Dymke(Ponyface). This album is essentially a collaborative piece between Jo Meares and Anth Dymke.

Special guests:- Jessie Newling - backing vocals 'Dry Bones', Michael Bridges - violin/saw, Dave Milne - piano 'Dream Hotel', Jessica - lead vocal 'Janet'

‘Dream Hotel’ is a magnificent tour de force: an assemblage of pure emotion that breathes softly down your neck and takes possession of your very soul. Enchanting, transfixing, mesmerising: weaving an indelible spell. This is pure magic'

Arun Kendall, Backseat Mafia 9.5/10

'BACK TO THE WORLD' was released in 2018.

Recorded over 2 years in Sydney and Melbourne it involves an extraordinary range of musicians.

'...this an album that does something for you and something to you. In a live setting at one point I would probably shed a tear. Magnificent just doesn't seem to cover it and if I would give a higher mark I would. Outstanding...' 10/10 - Ernest Platt, Wildspiritz Rising, November 2018

'Back To The World' is another of Meares’ mini-masterpieces. The 10-minute closer, An Old Dog And A Shotgun, would be worth your time alone, would be the album standout, the reason to come here to hear this – but there’s not a single dud track. Once again he’s taken time to create something ‘whole’, a piece, an album that could, in another setting, stand up as film or book, a graphic novel, a macabre ballet. - Simon Sweetman, Off The Tracks, October 2018

'KING OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN' was released in June 2014 Produced by Charles Jenkins it features the guitar work of virtuoso Jeff Lang and the sublime harmonica work of Reuben Alexander and Kari Pihl's beautiful piano work.

The haunting backing vocals were recorded by an all girl choir in an old church in Helsinki, Finland.

'...the whole album hit me in a way that some albums do; something by Richmond Fontaine, say. Or Springsteen's 'Ghost of Tom Joad'. A complete thing, a completed album that plays out like a movie or a book or a stage-play. It’s there. It unfolds for you. You’re listening to it but you can see it in front of you – you can imagine, the mind wanders due to the beauty and intensity and integrity of the music and the lyrics. Big bold stories. Real' - Simon Sweetman at Off The Tracks

'Mood and atmosphere are key factors in the creation of immersive and transportive music and Jo Meares' new album is richly imbued with both. Eerie, forlorn harmonica; delicate and heart-wrenching piano; slow, shuffling drums; and exquisite guitar courtesy of Jeff Lang are the backdrop to Meares' tales of love, pain and emotional turbulence, rendered in the talk/sung style of Leonard Cohen yet invested with the gothic country ambience of Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) and Wovenhand. King Of The Crystal Mountain is a richly detailed and beautiful set of recordings from start to finish' - Chris Familton The Music