In recent months, the big Finn news was surely the recruitment of Neil— the longtime Crowded House mastermind—into Fleetwood Mac, replacing (at least on this year’s tour) the canned Lindsey Buckingham. How that will work out remains to be seen, but surely if the Mac wanted someone who could match Buckingham’s natural gift for melody and harmony, they went to the right place. But that’s not the only thing happening in Finnworld. New Zealand’s greatest rock star has also made a record with his son, Liam, an active musician with a growing résumé and positive reviews to match. Neil and Liam have, inexplicably, never before worked together on a project of their own, and so they’ve finally found their way into a studio to do just that. Needless to say, pop melody abounds here: It’s not a Finn record unless you can hum along to it. Liam’s sensibilities are not entirely those of his dad’s; the plethora of electronics and what a press release describes as “lo-fi atmospherics” are more Liam’s bent than Neil’s, and the joy of the resulting recording is how they’ve managed to sew it together so seamlessly. An early gem is “Meet Me in the Air,” a dreamy, floating tune that’s reminiscent of the Beach Boys’ “‘Til I Die” melodically, although it’s miles away from it lyrically. And “Back to Life,” the first single, darts this way and that, without ever losing the sing-song charm at its root. Mick Fleetwood sits in on three tunes, but this one’s all about Finn family values.