Review by John Lewins ( HardRockHouse.Com)

Freeky Cleen are a one man band from Ukraine, 'formed' in 2004 when Ilya Polishchuk (all instruments and vocals) and Alex Okhrimenko (tech) decided to utilise the latter's newly built studio and, whilst they were at it, set up their own record label at the same time.

The result of this hard work is "Augean Stables", the second album from Freeky Cleen which is currently available as a totally legitimate, free download from the bands website. Distributing the album in this way is certainly a bold, ambitious move as I would have thought the Led Zeppelin informed hard rock within these grooves would be able to garner some kind of commercial viability, if marketed in the right way.

I don't think its too harsh to point out that there's not a lot of originality displayed here. Aside from Led Zep there's also a strong Aerosmith influence on songs such as "Corporation Dance" and "Male Chauvinist Pig" to be found, all of which gives the songs a welcome, familiar feel rather than just sounding like a total steal.

Comparisons aside "Augean Stables" is very enjoyable and showcases Ilya and Alexs talents nicely and when you can have this professionally produced set of songs on your ipod for nothing other than a fifteen minutes of your time and a few megabytes of your broadband bandwidth then theres really no excuse for not checking out Freeky Cleen.