The Brazilian brothers Khouri, vocalist and lead guitarist Matheus and bassist/vocalist Thiago Khouri, have obviously listened to every record cut in Liverpool in the early ’60s and absorbed some important lessons regarding brevity, harmony, the proper amount of jangle, and whacking the listener across the chops with a big fat hook. They’ve put those studies to good use in their group Banda AL9, releasing two excellent albums both in Portuguese and English before 2026’s English-only Hey! Hey! We’re Banda AL9. It wouldn’t matter if the record were sung in Martian, anyone with a love for bright and sunny guitar rock that sounds a bunch like, well, almost exactly like, the Beatles when Paul took over and scrubbed any irony or darkness from the final product,…

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