Managed to dodge dependencies with this post.. Still no luck after reboot and switching to pulseaudio
inxi -A
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.0-1-rt11-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes