Ruen Brothers strip their sound down to its twangy, haunted core on 2025’s Awooo. The duo’s fourth album and first since moving from their native England to their adopted home of Louisville, Kentucky, Awooo finds the brothers (singer, guitarist Henry Stansall and guitarist, multi-instrumentalist Rupert Stansall) pared down to their essentials. Consequently, the album shares little with its predecessor, 2023’s Ten Paces. Where that album found them blending their vintage ’50s- and ’60s-inspired rock with hooky pop elements, Awooo is all spare folk and country; a shadowy evocation of the long winter in which it was recorded. What connects all the duo’s work is a sharp self-awareness and wry, post-modern sense of humor. It’s an arch sensibility…