Using Field Type albumlist

I'm trying to use the album list field type but rather than get a select input I get a text input.

All I have in my template is this:

<perch:content id="album" type="albumlist" label="Album" />

Diagnostics:

Perch: 2.8.7
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (2.8.7), assets (2.8.7), categories (2.8.7), perch_blog (4.5.4), perch_gallery (2.8.6)
DB driver: PDO
DB tables: perch2_blog_authors, perch2_blog_comments, perch2_blog_index, perch2_blog_posts, perch2_blog_posts_to_tags, perch2_blog_sections, perch2_blog_tags, perch2_categories, perch2_category_counts, perch2_category_sets, perch2_content_index, perch2_content_items, perch2_content_regions, perch2_gallery_albums, perch2_gallery_image_versions, perch2_gallery_images, perch2_navigation, perch2_navigation_pages, perch2_page_templates, perch2_pages, perch2_resource_log, perch2_resource_tags, perch2_resources, perch2_resources_to_tags, perch2_settings, perch2_user_privileges, perch2_user_role_privileges, perch2_user_roles, perch2_users
Users: 5
App runtimes:
<?php
  $apps_list = array(
    'content', 
    'categories',
    'perch_gallery',
    'perch_blog',
  );
Scheduled tasks for perch_blog: delete_spam_comments (1440 mins)
Editor plug-ins: markitup
H1: e01e06393909f25b25e706186e9330f7
L1: afd7b3606d15bd76dae1bbb3c50c1b8c
headerColour: #ffffff
content_singlePageEdit: 1
helpURL:
siteURL: /
hideBranding: 1
content_collapseList: 0
lang: en-gb
update_2.6.6: done
latest_version: 2.8
on_sale_version: 2.8.7
update_2.7.3: done
perch_gallery_update: 2.8.5
update_2.7.4: done
headerScheme: light
perch_gallery_bucket_mode: single
perch_gallery_bucket: default
dashboard: 0
hide_pwd_reset: 0
content_hideNonEditableRegions: 0
content_frontend_edit: 0
perch_gallery_basicUpload: 0
perch_blog_update: 5.0
perch_blog_post_url: /blog/{postSlug}
perch_blog_slug_format: %Y-%m-%d-{postTitle}
perch_blog_akismet_key:
perch_blog_max_spam_days: 0
perch_blog_comment_notify: 0
logoPath: /cms/resources/wml-logo-black.png
update_2.8.7: done
PERCH_DEVELOPMENT: 10
PERCH_STAGING: 50
PERCH_PRODUCTION: 100
PERCH_DB_USERNAME: wml
PERCH_DB_SERVER: localhost
PERCH_DB_DATABASE: perch_wml
PERCH_DB_PREFIX: perch2_
PERCH_TZ: Europe/London
PERCH_EMAIL_FROM: toby@pixelpencreative.com
PERCH_EMAIL_FROM_NAME: Toby Martin
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /cms
PERCH_PATH: /Users/Toby/Sites/wml/cms
PERCH_CORE: /Users/Toby/Sites/wml/cms/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /Users/Toby/Sites/wml/cms/resources
PERCH_RESPATH: /cms/resources
PERCH_HTML5: 1
PERCH_RUNWAY:
PERCH_ERROR_MODE: DIE
PERCH_DATE_LONG: %d %B %Y
PERCH_DATE_SHORT: %d %b %Y
PERCH_TIME_SHORT: %H:%M
PERCH_TIME_LONG: %H:%M:%S
PERCH_DEBUG:
PERCH_PREVIEW_ARG: preview
PERCH_TEMPLATE_PATH: /Users/Toby/Sites/wml/cms/templates
PERCH_DEFAULT_DOC: index.php
PERCH_DEFAULT_EXT: .php
PERCH_PRODUCTION_MODE: 100
PERCH_RWD:
PERCH_HTML_ENTITIES:
PERCH_SSL:
PERCH_STRIPSLASHES:
PERCH_PROGRESSIVE_FLUSH: 1
PERCH_AUTH_PLUGIN:
PERCH_DB_CHARSET: utf8
PERCH_DB_PORT:
PERCH_DB_SOCKET:
HOSTING SETTINGS

PHP: 5.3.29
Zend: 2.3.0
OS: Darwin
SAPI: apache2handler
Safe mode: not detected
MySQL client: 5.5.42
MySQL server: 5.5.42
Extensions: Core, date, ereg, libxml, openssl, pcre, sqlite3, zlib, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, hash, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, SPL, iconv, intl, json, ldap, mbstring, mysql, mysqli, session, PDO, pdo_sqlite, standard, posix, Reflection, Phar, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, SQLite, exif, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, apache2handler, imap, gettext, mcrypt, yaz, pgsql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_mysql
GD: Yes
ImageMagick: No
PHP max upload size: 32M
PHP max form post size: 32M
PHP memory limit: 128M
Total max uploadable file size: 32M
Resource folder writeable: Yes
Session timeout: 24 minutes
Native JSON: Yes
Filter functions: Yes
Transliteration functions: No
HTTP_HOST: wml:8888
HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive
HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36
HTTP_REFERER: https://wml:8888/cms/core/settings/diagnostics/
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate, sdch
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US,en;q=0.8
HTTP_COOKIE: cmsa=1; PHPSESSID=8e62775249b9675f90d915a4433dae84
PATH: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache
SERVER_NAME: wml
SERVER_ADDR: ::1
SERVER_PORT: 8888
REMOTE_ADDR: ::1
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /Users/Toby/Sites/wml
SERVER_ADMIN: you@example.com
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /Users/Toby/Sites/wml/cms/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REMOTE_PORT: 56915
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
QUERY_STRING: extended
REQUEST_URI: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/?extended
SCRIPT_NAME: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
PHP_SELF: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REQUEST_TIME: 1432813714
argc: 1