The latter, released in 2008, was a powerful indie-folk confessional that at times sounded like Blood on the Tracks colliding with Arab Strap.
The Buddhas are a powerful symbol – of confessional tolerance, Buddhism in a Muslim country and the remains of the Silk Road – with scope for considerable political kudos, so academic quarrels have been diverted to serve strategic aims.
Green's formative films had garnered praise at high profile festivals, including feature documentary Ukraine Is Not A Brothel (2013) and The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul – the short film which became a blueprint for Casting JonBenét's powerful "casting call confessional" format.
"The confessional form can be powerful," Rowan told me.
Through her years as a solo artist, Juliana Hatfield, former Blake Babies singer, has created appealing songs with powerful guitar hooks, agreeable melodies and confessional lyrics.
Or, at least, as conventional as it can be, considering it's an unflinching confessional narrative about guzzling powerful drugs written in 1957.
She summons the sultry allure of Eartha Kitt (to whom she paid tribute on 2013's dazzling I Wanna Be Evil) and the sophisticated verve of Sarah Vaughan, whether shouting old-time blues, singing one of her own confessional compositions, or lending her powerful voice to the world premiere of Gerald Clayton's Piedmont Blues at Duke in 2016.
Meaningful expression of those emotions is another, and Dashboard Confessional's late-career music is less powerful than its early work, precisely because it comes from a place of remove.
Moreover, in many countries, the confessional divisions of Christendom after Luther created powerful religious minorities who were prepared to look abroad for guarantees of protection and solidarity: for example, the English Catholics to Spain and the French, German, and Dutch Calvinists to England.
It blends a dramatic confessional-style vocal by Rihanna, an equally powerful Nina Simone sample and a wordless vocal hook from Sister Nancy's reggae classic "Bam Bam" into a would-be anthem.
