Young Fathers seemed mildly offended to have been chosen for the Mercury Music Prize.

If anything, with its organisers’ habit of picking duff albums as winners, it was an affront to the quality of the Edinburgh quartet’s work.

But getting the nod for Dead means the group can expect to add a few thousand more sales to the 2,500 Dead had sold before the news and their small Brighton club show as part of Drill Festival had an added spice.

It was a storming set as the core three - Liberian-born Alloysious Massaquoi and Edinburgh-born Kayus Bankole and 'G' Hastings – roamed the stage and eyeballed the crowd while session drummer Steven Morrison clobbered the drums, standing rather than sitting, at the back of the stage.

On Get Up, the bass heavy call to arms which revealed a group with as much soul as attitude, Bankole and Massaquoi mixed rap with singing and for the first time Hastings’ Scottish lilt seeped through.

Similarly, No Way’s lyrics addressed the mixed heritage and showed why the group’s sound is so fertile – fusing hip hop and electro and pop and wearing its Edinburgh birthplace lightly.

Young Fathers were the right Mercury Prize pick. They feel relevant and necessary. An intense and firey set, which reflected the group’s output to date, included tracks Queen Is Dead and I Heard from Tape Two, the EP named Scottish Album Of The Year in July, confirmed it.