Will Pugh, lead singer of Cartel, did an interview for Alternative Press where he talked about Chroma and “Honestly”, ten years after release:

Yeah. [Laughs.] Basically, it was at this point in time where my wife and I were still dating and we were in college and I left and went out on tour. We had broken up and I was like, “I’m going on tour, and you’re going to be in college. I don’t know how long I’m going to be gone, pretty much perpetually. So, I think it’s best if we break up.” We had been dating for three or four years, but we were broken up for about a year and she had started dating someone else for a little bit. And that made me want to fucking kill things. And this was long––maybe six months after we had broken up. I was like, “Yeah, I’m coming off the road and I’m going to see you for the first time,” and then her dating someone else started happening and it affected me a lot more than I thought. It just ate at me so hard. So, that’s basically where “Honestly” came from. Like, “I don’t know what I’m going to do or how I’m going to do it, but I’m getting you back.” “If I Fail” was kind of the same thing.