If I could fix [Lady GaGa] up with anybody else in the charts right now, Brandon from The Killers has compatibly strange dress sense – could you imagine their combined walk-in wardrobe? Wow.

And whaddaya know, the two of them performed at last night’s Brit Awards honouring pop octogenarians the Pet Shop Boys. Their shared love of wacky stagewear and synthesised keyboard-music brought them together after all.

Now, let’s keep our fingers crossed for a little lycra-clad baby (Lady Flowers?) with feather covered shoulder pads. You read it here first!

Brandon Flowers is back with another of those ‘curious’ jackets with feathers on the shoulders and another song to sing.

The latest Killers single is called Spaceman, and is very much in the same synth-heavy vein as Human was, but is a little more conventional. It’s still really sonically dense, as it packs in a pulsating verse and chorus, the aforementioned synths and some distorted guitar to glue the whole thing together.

And like Human, I think Spaceman will take a little bit of getting used to, but it will grow on you. Sure, there’ll be a faction of people who’ll hate this. Their demographic profile is: early Killers fans who hate everything they’ve done since Hot Fuss.

Personally, I love this new direction The Killers have taken. It’s bold and unique within our pop charts. As someone wrote on MySpace recently – “Brandon Flowers is making me rethink my lifelong aversion to the Pet Shop Boys.”

The  video is predictably far-out – plenty of extras in fancy dress, and Monsieur  Flowers in the midst of it all looking freaky in a red ‘spacesuit’ and black feathers. Described adequately by Drew Litowitz as “what a feminine, football playing storm trooper might fashion for himself”.

Human is the first single from The Killers’ third album, Day & Age.

Critic types are claiming this is a return to form for the band. The band’s lead singer Brandon Flowers describes it as a “cross between Johnny Cash and the Pet Shop Boys”.

With a description like that, said single could conceivably be a train wreck. However, on first listen the synth sounds like it’s the intro to a dance track, but morphs into this sublime experience. I get the PSB comparisons, but while I can’t listen to the Pet Shop Boys without wanting to shoot Neil Tennant, this I think is genius.

A review on MyFizzyPop describes Human as

the A.Maz.Ing. new single "Human". It’s been described as an epic Pet Shop Boys type song, and that’s probably not far wrong. It’s a synth filled track that builds up a la Read My Mind (their "poppest" moment from Sam’s Town) until a disco beat drops at the start of the second verse and it’s practically orgasmic.

I’ve read a ton of negative reviews across the web, none of which I can really fathom, because this is one of my favourite tracks of 2008. Seriously. Thumbs up.

The Killers have released a new Christmas song, Don’t Shoot Me Santa, with proceeds going to the RED campaign.

First impression? Thank God for a new Christmas tune, one that doesn’t take itself seriously at all, and which has a deranged ginger Santa trying to assassinate singer Brandon Flowers!

Don’t Shoot Me Santa is played in a very authentic Xmas style, complete with a mock soulful spoken bit in the middle. And lest we forget, that beautiful line about the sweet Mojave rain…

The video’s hilarious, varying between psycho Santa holding Flowers hostage in the desert and footage of the band in a cheesy log cabin, decked out in Chirstmas-patterned jumpers. Sexy…not.

Good tune, check it out…