Galen Hooks is in the mood for love.

Cee is back in London today to put the finishing touches to his debut album in the studio. We are sitting in the building’s lobby, and the rapper has just risen from sleep. And though he’s been here for two weeks, sleeping in the studio, feeling faint pangs of pressure about the moment ahead, the time has not been as productive as he had hoped, this current stage of his career pulling him across countries and time zones and rarely offering him a moment to settle.