Molly Millington Announces Debut Album ‘Frank Morgan’ Out February 27; Shares New Single + Music Video “Just Drive”

Today, Australian singer-songwriter Molly Millington is stepping into her technicolour era, officially announcing her debut album Frank Morgan, due February 27 2026 via Nettwerk, and releasing her nostalgic, hopeful new single “Just Drive”. 

Co-written and produced with longtime collaborator Xavier Dunn (Jack River, Peking Duk) and mixed by Simon Cohen (Justin Bieber, Troye Sivan, Genesis Owusu), “Just Drive” bottles the feeling of escape – late-night drives with the windows down, the craving for freedom from adult responsibility; sometimes with conversation, sometimes in silence, always with the music turned up. It’s the perfect road trip soundtrack, exploding with nostalgia and high hopes for the future.

Molly explains, “It’s about reminiscing on growing up and the lack of responsibilities, and wanting to drive away and start afresh. I’ve asked a few older people in my life about this feeling, and they’ve all had a similar answer: once it comes it never fully goes away. I got really sick in my late teens and my mum and I would go for drives after dinner and blast music. Sometimes we’d talk, sometimes we’d sit in silence, but it would always settle my mind. I think ‘Just Drive’ was really inspired by those moments, even if it was unintentional.” 

WATCH & SHARE: MOLLY MILLINGTON “JUST DRIVE”
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WATCH & SHARE: MOLLY MILLINGTON “JUST DRIVE”
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Molly’s debut album Frank Morgan takes its name from the actor in The Wizard of Oz who secretly played five different characters in the film. For years, Molly thought he was only the Wizard – until realising he’d been hiding in plain sight all along. That discovery became the perfect metaphor for the many roles we all play and the countless ways people perceive us. “It was like the Superman effect,” she says. “It made me think of all the different perspectives people can have of us…People are always going to see you in different ways, but only the people who really know you will see you as a complete package.”

Across the album’s twelve tracks, Molly shapeshifts with dazzling ease, embracing every version of herself through sparkling country-pop and diaristic storytelling. One moment she’s an old-time country radio host dishing sly wisdom on “Girl Next Door,” the next a gentle optimist basking in friendship on “Lover’s Song,” or confronting the sting of misperception on the incisive lead single “Your Villain.” Elsewhere, the wry bite of “My Man” and late-night rambler “Just Drive” bridge the country classics Molly grew up on with the pop world she inhabits today.

On the album, Molly shares, “In all honesty, this is a pretty selfish record – I really wrote it for me. I wasn’t trying to impress anyone, I just wanted to have fun and make what feels right to me, hence the circling back around to country music. All I really care about, at the end of the day, is the song, and I like writing songs no matter what the musical window dressing is – so it’s a little bit country, a little bit pop, it’s happy, sad, but always honest. I don’t think you can ask much more of me than that.”

Working with longtime collaborator Xavier Dunn, Molly threads these characters through lush, warm production that nods to the likes of Dolly Parton, Kacey Musgraves, Julia Michaels and Sabrina Carpenter, while remaining unmistakably her own – bright, candid, and unpredictable. The result is a coming-of-age record that balances radiant pop hooks with a newfound softness and strength.

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Adding to the celebrations, Molly has announced she will join American indie rockers Whitney when they bring their tour to Brisbane and Melbourne later this month.