As fantastic as MGMT are as a band, and it's a pretty cool idea trying to engage their fans into designing their website. There are some really cool pictures and art work people have come up with, however this isn't very practical and from a usabilty perspective is very poor!
You visit the home page and are presented with the following page:
Although the image isn't too bad, it's still fairly noisy and makes text difficult to read, especially when you are looking at events (which has the same background) for concert dates. As this is the most important aspect of a band's site, the information should not be difficult to read.
You move away to the 'Music' part of the website, and boy is this an eye sore. You would probably get eye strain from trying to read what's on there and the whole fan art aspect of it means that the site is inconsistent.
If you then move on to the 'fan art' section you are presented with a gallery of art people have uploaded, by selecting you can change the backdrop....great....however there is no option (or easy way if there is an option) of turning off the fan art element of the site.
Yes it's a nice concept but it makes for a very poor user experience.
