MGMT spent two nights as the house band at the Guggenheim last week, in honor of the museum's retrospective on Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled All. On Friday night the five-member band played just under an hour of new material in front of a sold-out crowd. MGMT's instrumentals came in hazy electronic waves whose melodies traveled cleanly all the way to the top floor. The music's psychedelic effect was bolstered by vertical strips of blinking, colored lights positioned on the perimeter of each spiral level of the building's interior. But Cattelan's 128-piece installation out-tripped them all, thanks to the midair suspension of gangly, taxidermied horses, a kneeling Hitler and a reclining Pope. According to Columbia Records' Nikki Bennett
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