Black Lodge - Kings Arms Sessions Vol.3: Lodgewars (2018)

Mancunian flaneur Dan Dwayre a.k.a. Black Lodge knuckles out a 3rd volume of his ‘Kings Arms Sessions’, arriving at the dog end of the decade to his first instalments, and in the wake of his ‘MWR157’ cat# unearthed by Warp’s Arcola, and the ‘Bitter Blood’ collection for Disciples

Named after The Kings Arms pub in Salford, the gnarlier bit of Manchester which Black Lodge haunts when he’s not in the Northern Quarter, this is the 3rd and final part of triptych started by The Trilogy Tapes.

The vibe is pure grot, revolving 12 gobs of free-ranging, punkish groove soused in salty noise and prone to bouts of keening discord. In that sense, we can point to precedents for this sound ranging from Tony Conrad to Ron Morelli and Zoviet*France, but the best way to really get to grips with it is to spend 40 odd years in the belly of the Manchester beast, or at least neck some garies and a bockle of wine and spend a night rolling around the NQ.