Top 10 albums of 2015

1. Joanna Newsom, Divers
2. Sleater-Kinney, No Cities to Love
3. Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
4. Waxahatchee, Ivy Tripp
5. Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
6. Grimes, Art Angels
7. Kurt Vile, b'lieve I'm goin down...
8. Empress Of, Me
9. Tame Impala, Currents
10. Girlpool, Before the World Was Big

Top 10 Songs of 2015

By acts that didn't appear on my top albums of 2015 list

1. Rihanna, "Bitch Better Have My Money"
2. FKA Twigs, "In Time"
3. Adele, "Sweetest Devotion"
4. Jamie xx, "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)"
5. Julia Holter, "Feel You"
6. Alex G, "Bug"
7. Shamir, "On The Regular"
8. Beach House, "Sparks"
9. Thundercat, "Them Changes"
10. Colleen Green, "TV"

Grace Birnstengel is a senior at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the editor-in-chief of The Wake Student Magazine and also contributes to The Riveter Magazine and Stereogum. Find her on Twitter @grace__.