Recording and Themes
The track begins with a sample of the song "By the Sea" by the teenage sibling duo Wendy and Bonnie, from their 1969 album Genesis, which Super Furries singer Gruff Rhys has described as "amazing songs, amazing lyrics and amazing voices". The decision to begin the track with a snippet of "By the Sea" came about due to laziness on the band's part—the track had originally being conceived as a duet but the group "never got around to getting anyone to sing" with them so they "chopped up the Wendy & Bonnie song and stuck it on it's in the same key seemed to make sense". The edit version, issued as a single, does not contain the sample.
"Hello Sunshine" shares the same key, D major, the same guitar tuning, D-A-D-D-A-D, and was written around the same time as several other songs from Phantom Power including the "Father Father" instrumentals, "Golden Retriever", "Cityscape Skybaby" and "Out of Control". The track was recorded at the Super Furry Animals' own studio in Cardiff along with the rest of Phantom Power. Rhys has stated that the song is "a courting ballad with a 'been so down looks like up to me' mentality".
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