It had been six years since Haley Heynderickx released her debut full-length, “I Need To Start A Garden,” and I was going to write about how wonderful that album is and how it would be nice to have an update on its follow-up, but also how we as a society increasingly focused on our own gratification need to be more patient with artists, who are artists making art, it should be noted, not machines cranking out content for our consumption.

The emphasis in that long sentence could go a lot of different places. But today, let’s put it on the word “had” because on Wednesday, Heynderickx announced her sophomore effort, “Seed of a Seed.” It’ll be released digitally on Nov. 1.

Heynderickx is a singer of folk songs, but that is selling her short. Based in Portland, she writes folk songs that are endlessly compelling, thanks to her playful melodicism, her distinctive guitar playing, her confounding lyrics, her unconventional choices and the intimacy of the tiny worlds she builds, three to five minutes at a time.

Presumably, Heynderickx will be touring behind “Seed of a Seed” for a while, so we’re lucky to get her early in that cycle: She’ll play The Belfry in Sisters on Sunday.

Haley Heynderickx, with Nick Delffs: 7 p.m. Sunday, $25, The Belfry, 302 E. Main Ave., Sisters, belfryevents.com.