If you ever doubted that blues music is a language of the soul which knows no boundaries, check out Portugal’s XXL Blues. They play raucous, rocking, king-sized blues-rock numbers with heaps of attitude and loudness levels approaching the limits of human hearing. XXL Blues II, the sequel to their self-titled full length, contains 10 songs of pure badassery, sung mostly in Portuguese. The tempo is lively, the mood is playful, and the tunes rock hard. Our only gripe with the…